Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, diffuse, 3–10(–17) cm underground, appressed-hairy or 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.

(2–)3–11 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, ± distinct or connate to 1/2 their length and herbaceous becoming papery at distal nodes, 2–6 mm;

leaflets 7–27, blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or linear-oblong, 3–16 mm, apex truncate-emarginate or obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, sparsely hairy adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–19(–27)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1.5–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–6 mm;

bracteoles (0 or) 2.

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

ascending, usually stout and ± straight, 2–8(–11.5) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2.9 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.

13.4–21 mm;

calyx campanulate or cylindric-campanulate, 6–10.6 mm, villosulous, tube 4.9–8 mm, lobes subulate to triangular, 1.1–2.8 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple or pale and lilac-tinged;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.4–14 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.

spreading to declined, green, sometimes red-mottled, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or nearly so, oblong or ovoid-ellipsoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, not bladdery, 15–24 × (4.5–)5–9.5 mm, leathery, sparsely strigulose to villosulous;

sessile or subsessile.

6–10.

25–36.

= 16.