Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, clumps often as tall as wide, strigulose-villosulous.

(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.

3–8.5 cm;

stipules mostly distinct, some shortly connate-sheathing, 2–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–17, blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 3–20 mm, apex truncate to retuse, mucronate, or acute, surfaces strigulose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved, 1–4 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.8–3.6 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.

6.3–8.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.8–6.6 mm, villous, tube 2.3–3 mm, lobes subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, fading yellowish;

banner recurved through 60–90°;

keel 5.8–6.8 mm, apex bluntly or sharply triangular, often 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.

deciduous from receptacle, declined, green, often brightly purple- or red-mottled, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, inflated, not strongly bladdery, gently obcompressed, 13–21 × 7–11 mm, firmly papery, villosulous, hairs spreading, incurved, to 0.7 mm.

6–10.

20–28.

= 16.