Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, (0–)1–12+ cm underground, villous.

forming rounded, birds-nestlike clumps, ascending to erect, many-branched, 3–14+ cm underground, strigose.

(2–)3–12 cm;

stipules distinct, subterranean ones often fully amplexicaul but distinct, 7–15 mm, foliose at distal nodes;

leaflets (5–)7–13(–15), blades elliptic, oblong or lanceolate-elliptic, 10–30(–35) mm, pinnately veined, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely villosulous or villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly distinct, 1–6 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–11(or 13), blades linear or oblong, 2–20(–25) mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or acute, surfaces pubescent or adaxially glabrous;

terminal leaflet of distal leaves decurrent and not jointed to rachis.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3–)8–33-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 1.5–28 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 3–9.8 cm, usually longer than subtending leaf.

erect or incurved-ascending, 4–16(–28) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1.2–3 mm.

13–19 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 7.5–8.8 mm, villosulous, tube 6.3–8 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.6–0.8 mm;

corolla yellowish with whitish margins, banner sometimes purple bordered white, keel 13.2–16 mm.

(9–)10–15 mm;

calyx campanulate, (3.5–)3.8–7 mm, black-strigose, tube (3–)3.3–5.5 mm, lobes subulate, (0.5–)1–2.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 30–45°;

keel (7.5–)8.4–10.3 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, not beaklike.

green becoming brown, ± straight, ovoid, inflated, 15–21 × 5.5–8 mm, papery-membranous, black-pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

stipe 5–7 mm, pubescent.

pendulous, green or purple-tinged becoming brownish stramineous, straight or gently decurved, narrowly oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–32 × 3.5–4.5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, strigose;

stipe (2.5–)3.5–6 mm.

6–10.

(16–)20–26.

= 16.