Flora of North America species comparison

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

strigulose-canescent.

(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.

1–4(–6) cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–11(–17), blades elliptic to obovate, 1.5–10 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

1–4-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0–8 mm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 0.8–4.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.7–4 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.

6–8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.9–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 80°;

keel 6–7.4 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-ascending, purple-mottled becoming stramineous, incurved, obliquely oblong, 3-sided and laterally compressed, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, papery, strigulose, hairs often contorted;

gynophore 0–0.8 mm.

6–10.

7–10.

= 16.