Flora of North America species comparison

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

from rhizome buds, internodes short and strongly flexuous, decumbent, ascending distally, 3–10(–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.

(2.5–)5–15 cm;

stipules bidentate, (2.5–)3.5–11 mm, papery, pallid;

leaflets (7 or)9–15(–21), blades broadly obovate or suborbiculate-obcordate, 4–20 mm, apex obtuse or widely and shallowly notched, surfaces strigose, sometimes less densely so adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(15–)20–35-flowered, flowers nodding;

axis 3–7.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5.5 mm.

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

erect or divaricate, 1.5–5.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.6–2.2 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.

15.5–19 mm;

calyx deeply campanulate or subcylindric, 6.5–10 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 5.5–7.3 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous;

keel 11.5–13.5 mm.

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.

erect or narrowly ascending, brown, ± straight or incurved through 0.25 spiral, oblong, slightly obcompressed, 1–1.5(–1.8) × (3–)4–6 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely strigulose;

sessile.

6–10.

(17–)20–28.

= 16.