Flora of North America species comparison

of 2d-year stems gray or grayish purple, glabrous.

of 2d-year stems purple, glabrous.

3-foliolate;

petioles 0.8-5.4 cm.

blade narrowly elliptic, 1-veined from base, 1.7-4.6 × 0.6-1.7 cm, thin and flexible, base long-attenuate, margins plane, entire or toothed, each with 3-12 teeth 0-1 mm high tipped with bristles to 0.4-1.4 × 0.1-0.2 mm, apex acute to obtuse or rounded;

surfaces abaxially dull or glossy and smooth, adaxially dull or glossy and not glaucous.

blades thick and rigid;

surfaces abaxially dull, papillose, adaxially dull, ± glaucous;

terminal leaflet sessile, blade 2.3-5.8 × 0.9-2 cm, 1.6-3.1 times as long as wide;

lateral leaflet blades narrowly lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 1-veined from base, base acute or acuminate, rarely rounded-acute, margins plane, toothed or lobed, with 1-3 teeth or lobes 3-7 mm high tipped with spines to 1-2 × 0.2-0.3 mm, apex narrowly acute or acuminate.

absent.

present, simple or 1-2-pinnately branched.

racemose, lax, 1-8-flowered, 0.5-3 cm;

bracteoles membranous, apex acuminate.

racemose, lax, 4-15-flowered, 1.5-4.5 cm;

bracteoles membranous, apex acuminate.

anther filaments without distal pair of recurved lateral teeth.

anther filaments without distal pair of recurved lateral teeth.

red, sometimes glaucous, spheric, 6-11 mm, juicy, solid.

red, not glaucous, oblong-ellipsoid, 6-8 mm, juicy, solid.

scales 2-3 mm, deciduous.

scales 1-2 mm, deciduous.