Flora of North America species comparison

4–14 cm;

stipules stiff, papery, becoming reddish brown, 12–20 mm, free ends caudate-acuminate, pilose to glabrate abaxially, margins ciliate;

leaflets 11–21, blades ovate to lanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, 4–17 × 2–4 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces pilose on midrib abaxially, pilose or glabrous adaxially.

1.5–16 cm;

stipules membranous or papery, light tan or pale gray, silky-pilose;

leaflets 5–25, blades narrowly elliptic, lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate, 4–21 × 1–4 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky-pilose.

6–10-flowered, subcapitate, slightly elongate in fruit.

3–22-flowered, subcapitate to loosely racemose in flower, sometimes slightly elongate in fruit.

erect or ascending, 4–15 cm, spreading-villous;

bract lanceolate, shorter to longer than calyx, villous, margins ciliate.

2–19 cm, axis 0.5–8(–10) cm in fruit, hairs appressed or some ascending;

bract ovate-rhombic to lanceolate or lanceolate-acuminate, silky-pilose, margins ciliate.

yellowish, keel tip not maculate, 13–17 mm.

bright pink-purple, 17–25 mm, wing petals broadly expanded, often conspicuously 2-lobed apically.

short-cylindric, villous, hairs intermixed black and white;

tube 5–6 mm, lobes 1.5–3.2 mm.

cylindric-campanulate, hispid-hirsute, silky-hairy, silky-pilose, or appressed-silky, hairs white;

tube (5–)6–8(–9.5) mm, lobes 2–6 mm.

erect, sessile or subsessile, ovoid-ellipsoid, 15–21 × 5–7 mm, length less than or equal to 3 times width, partially bilocular, papery, sulcate adaxially, pilose, hairs black and white.

rupturing calyx but invested by it, erect or spreading, sessile or short-stipitate, stipe to 1.2 mm, cylindric, scarcely to strongly inflated or swollen, (5–)10–14(–20) × 2.5–10 mm, bilocular or semibilocular, papery, villous, hairs whitish, shiny, (1–)1.5–3 mm.

= 96.