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.

6–10 cm;

stipules persistent, well separated, firm, rigid, usually purplish or becoming purplish, free ends long-attenuate, pilose abaxially, or glabrate on free ends, margins scarious and ciliate, with clavate processes;

leaflets 13–17, blades lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 6–16(–18) × 2–3.5 mm, base rounded, margins involute, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose to pilose abaxially, pilose to glabrate adaxially.

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

5–8-flowered.

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

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

7–11 cm, strigose, hairs spreading, appressed;

bract lanceolate, pilose, margins ciliate, with clavate processes.

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

blue or purplish, 16–18(–20) mm.

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

tube 5–6 mm, lobes 1.5–3.2 mm.

purplish, short-cylindric to campanulate, minutely strigulose, hairs black and white;

tube 5.8–7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.2 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.

held aloft at maturity, spreading, sessile, cylindric, 12–17 × 5–7 mm (to 3 times longer than wide), bilocular or sub-bilocular, pilose, hairs black or black and white.

= 96.

= 80.