Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

(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.

reduced to phyllodia, 0.4–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 3–6 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate, 4–25 mm, apex acute or apiculate, 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;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.4–1.8 mm.

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

erect or ascending, (0.5–)1–3 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.5–1.8 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.

10.6–12 mm;

calyx 4.5–7 mm, prominently veined in fruit, strigose, tube 3–4.1 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.3–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 7–9.6 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.

ascending, green or red-mottled becoming stramineous or brown, slightly curved, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 6–13(–15) × 2–5 mm, papery, glabrous or glabrate;

sessile.

6–10.

11–14.

= 16.