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.

0.5–5 cm;

stipules membranous, whitish or with light tan or grayish herbaceous tips, 5–14 mm, usually ± pilose, rarely glabrous abaxially, margins often long-ciliate, with clavate processes;

leaflets 5–15, blades elliptic to ovate, 2–10 × 1–2(–3) mm, flat, margins involute but not falcate, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky- or silvery-canescent, villous, strigose, or loosely pilose, rarely glabrous.

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

1 or 2(–5)-flowered.

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

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

0.3–4[–5] cm, pubescent;

bract narrowly lanceolate to linear, pilose.

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

bright pink-purple or blue-purple to white, 12–20 mm.

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

tube 5–6 mm, lobes 1.5–3.2 mm.

campanulate, usually black-pilose, sometimes villous, strigose, or glabrous;

tube 3–6 mm, lobes 1.8–4 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.

spreading, subsessile to short-stipitate or stipitate, stipe 1.5–5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, 18–38(–40) × 8–11 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, usually strigulose to pilose or villous, rarely glabrous.

= 96.