Flora of North America species comparison

1–5 cm;

stipules membranous, light tan or pale gray, white-silky-pilose, margins ciliate;

leaflets 5–9, opposite or scattered, blades lanceolate to elliptic, oblong, or oblanceolate, 3–13 × 1–4 mm, apex acute, surfaces silky-pilose.

6–28 cm;

stipules membranous, light tan or grayish, 8–22 mm, free ends acuminate, pilose, villous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, margins ciliate or eciliate;

leaflets 7–19(or 21), opposite, subopposite, or scattered, blades ovate to elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, (4–)7–32(–40) × (1.5–)4–9(–10) mm, apex acute, surfaces sericeous, often densely so.

1–4-flowered, clustered.

5–20+-flowered, subcapitate to elongate.

1–4 cm, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, long-villous;

bract ovate to broadly lanceolate, sparsely pilose.

erect, 7–30 cm, sericeous;

bract lanceolate, shorter than flowers, pilose.

bright pink to pink-purple, 17–24 mm.

white to yellowish, keel tip maculate or not, 17–27(–28) mm.

campanulate or already tumescent at anthesis, 7–13(–20) mm, densely white-pilose;

tube 5.5–10 mm 8–18 mm in fruit, becoming bladdery-inflated and investing fruit, lobes 2–3 mm.

cylindric, 7–12 mm, pilose, hairs black and white, lobes dark hairy;

tube 6.5–9 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.

included within swollen calyx, erect or pendulous, stipitate, stipe 0.5–1.5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, subunilocular, papery, not rigid at maturity, short-villous.

erect, sessile, subcylindric to ovoid-oblong, 15–24 × 4.5–7 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy when fresh, becoming leathery or almost woody and rigid, strigose or pilosulous.