Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, often bushy, branched, 7–15 dm.

erect, diffusely branched, 3–15 dm.

2–8.5 cm;

stipules narrowly triangular, 0.5–1 mm;

petiole 0.5–1.3 cm;

stipels 0.5–1 mm;

petiolules 1–1.3 mm;

leaflets (7 or)9–13, ± opposite, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 8–20(–25) × 2–12 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces strigulose, pale abaxially.

2.5–9 cm;

stipules linear-triangular, 1–2 mm;

petiole 0.3–1.5 cm;

stipels 0.5 mm;

petiolules 1.3 mm;

leaflets 13–19, opposite, blades elliptic to obovate-oblong, sometimes folded, 20–30 × 2–5 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly rounded or truncate, mucronate, surfaces strigose and pale abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

15–40-flowered, lax, 4–12 cm.

20–35+-flowered, lax, 2.5–11 cm.

1–2 cm.

0.8–1.2 cm.

1–2(–3) mm.

1–2 mm.

6–9 mm;

calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes deltate;

corolla dark pinkish buff to ochroleucous.

4.5–5.2 mm;

calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes broadly triangular;

corolla orange-mauve or pinkish.

dark brown, deflexed, ovoid or oblong, straight, 7–9 mm, woody, glabrate or sparsely strigulose.

brown, divergent or deflexed, ellipsoidal, straight, 3–3.5 mm, leathery, glabrate.

2 or 3, yellowish tan, bluntly ellipsoidal.

1, brown, bluntly ellipsoidal.