Flora of North America species comparison

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

single or few to several.

(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.

odd-pinnate, subsessile or short-petiolate;

leaflets (5 or)7–15.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

usually loosely, sometimes compactly, flowered, flowers nodding.

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

1.5–5 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.

white, cream, or yellowish with whitish margins, banner recurved through 35–45°, keel slightly shorter than wings, apex blunt or round.

tubes campanulate or subcylindric.

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.

± persistent, pendulous, stipitate, obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid, ± inflated, usually bladdery, laterally compressed proximally, dorsiventrally compressed distally, unilocular.

6–10.

6–10.

basifixed.

distinct or proximalmost connate.

= 16.