Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to incurved-ascending or almost prostrate, strigulose.

single, few, or several to many.

(2–)4–10(12) cm;

stipules usually distinct, very rarely connate at proximal nodes, (1.5–)2.5–7(–10) mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (7–)11–19[–23], blades narrowly oblanceolate, linear-oblong, or oblong-obovate, 5–20 mm, apex retuse-truncate or obtuse, often callous-apiculate, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

odd-pinnate, subsessile to petiolate;

leaflets (3 or)5–35.

[2 or](3–)5–10(–15)-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading or declined;

axis (0.5–)1–4(–5) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely or densely flowered, flowers spreading to ascending or declined.

incurved-ascending, (0.5–)1.5–5.5(–7) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

4.6–7.5 mm;

calyx campanulate or turbinate-campanulate, 4.3–6.4 mm, strigulose or villosulous, tube 2.1–2.9(–3.2) mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 2–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged pink or lavender, or pale to vivid reddish lilac;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel (4.1–)4.4–6.4 mm, apex usually broad and blunt, rarely triangular and subacute, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

white, whitish, yellowish, lilac, blue-violet, or pink-purple, often drying violet, banner recurved through 40–125°, keel apex rounded, deltate, or narrowly triangular, often beaklike.

tubes campanulate, turbinate-campanulate, or obconic-campanulate.

spreading or declined (usually humistrate), green or purplish-tinged, rarely lightly mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, broadly and subsymmetrically, or somewhat obliquely, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, (10–)15–37(–43) × (8–)12–20 mm, beak short and obscure, not well differentiated from body, thin becoming papery, lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, [subvillosulous, or glabrate].

usually deciduous, sessile, gynophore sometimes present, spreading, ascending, or declined, globose to ovoid, lanceoloid-oblong, or -ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated or slightly swollen, usually unilocular, rarely semibilocular.

(10–)13–21.

(3–)6–58(–76).

basifixed.

usually distinct, rarely connate at proximal nodes.

= 22.