Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending, strigulose.

(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.

2.5–11 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblong-oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or obovate, 3–15 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

appearing subumbellate, loosely 5–11-flowered;

axis 1–5 cm in fruit;

bracts (1.5–)2.5–3.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely 9–20-flowered;

axis 4.5–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 2.5–6(–10) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.8–2 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.

6.9–7.6 mm;

calyx 3.5–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

pendulous, mottled (and glaucescent) becoming stramineous and faintly purple-tinged, slightly incurved, oblong-lanceoloid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 18–25 × 3–4.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 2.4–2.7 mm wide;

stipe 3–4 mm.

6–10.

11–16.

= 16.