Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, usually sparsely to densely strigulose or strigose-pilosulous, rarely silky-villosulous.

ascending to erect, villous.

1–5.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, mostly connate and herbaceous at distal nodes, turning black in drying, 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades elliptic, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly obovate, 2–12 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse or retuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose abaxially, silky-strigulose, villosulous, glabrescent, or glabrous adaxially.

(6–)9–17 cm;

stipules reflexed, connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 10–22 mm, foliose becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades broadly lanceolate- or ovate-oblong or elliptic, 15–60 mm, thin, pinnately veined, apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

3–7(–11)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0–1.

10–25(–30)-flowered;

axis 2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 2.

0.2–4 cm.

erect, (3.5–)5–14(–19) cm, equaling or shorter than subtending leaf, sometimes exceeding proximal ones, together with racemes usually not longer than distalmost leaves.

1.5–3.5(–4.2) mm.

3–9 mm.

(4.3–)5.2–9.3 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2.4–4.5 mm, strigose, tube 1.4–2.2 mm, lobes setaceous, (0.8–)1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, sometimes lilac-tipped or -tinged, banner sometimes purple-veined, keel maculate;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel (2.9–)3.4–5.6 mm.

8–13(–14.2) mm;

calyx campanulate, (4.5–)4.9–5.8 mm, glabrous, tube (4.3–)4.9–5.8 mm, lobes deltate (often reduced to shallow crenulations), 0.2–0.7 mm, ciliate;

corolla white or cream, keel 10.3–12.7 mm.

deflexed or declined, stramineous, straight, ellipsoid, obovoid-ellipsoid, oblong-ellipsoid, or linear, laterally flattened, 3.5–12 × 1.8–3.5 mm, bicarinate, papery, strigose;

stipe 0–0.3 mm.

stramineous, straight, obliquely ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 20–28 × 6.5–9.5 mm, papery, translucent, glabrous;

stipe 4.5–7 mm.

(4 or)5–8(–11).

6–9.

= 16.