Flora of North America species comparison

many, decumbent, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

erect, 0–7 cm underground, glabrous.

3–7 cm;

stipules 2.5–5 mm, membranous or membranous-margined;

leaflets 13–25(–29), blades oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, 6–16 mm, apex retuse or apiculate, surfaces glabrous (except midrib sparsely strigose) abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

crowded, loosely imbricate, 1.5–6.5 cm;

stipules 2–15 mm, membranous;

leaflet blade ovate, orbiculate, or cordate, 15–65 mm, apex obtuse to rounded or retuse, surfaces glabrous.

5–7-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–12-flowered;

axis 0.4–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

reclined in fruit, 2–6 cm.

erect, 0.5–4.5 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–5 mm.

16–23 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 9.5–11 mm, strigulose, tube 5.5–6.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 3.5–4.5 mm;

corolla whitish;

keel 12–13 mm.

17–27 mm;

calyx 10–17 mm, black-strigose, tube 8.3–13 mm, lobes linear to subulate, 1.5–3.8 mm;

corolla keel 14.2–18.5 mm.

ascending (humistrate), stramineous, slightly incurved, obliquely oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 20–40 × (9–)11–19 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous;

septum 3–4 mm wide;

stipe 5–20 mm.

pale green and purple-speckled becoming stramineous, straight, 25–35 × 11–16 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

stipe 10–23 mm.

26–28.

= 24.