Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, unbranched or densely dichotomously branched.

erect, branched distally.

palmate;

stipules ovate or lanceolate, 1–3 cm, margins entire or toothed, apex usually acuminate, sometimes 2-fid;

petiole 3–15 cm;

petiolules 1–1.5 mm;

leaflets 3, blades broadly obovate, orbiculate, or rhombic-obovate, 0.8–4 × 0.7–3 cm, base broadly cuneate, veins obscure, thickened near leaflet margin, margins remotely dentate to densely serrulate-dentate, apex rounded or slightly retuse, surfaces glabrous or glabrate.

palmate;

stipules linear-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 0.5–0.8 cm, margins entire, apex filiform;

petiole 0.4–4.5 cm;

petiolules 1+ mm;

leaflets 3, blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 1–2 × 0.2–0.5 cm, base cuneate, veins fine, margins denticulate distally, apex mucronate, surfaces hairy.

terminal or axillary, 10–30-flowered, subglobose or globose, 1–4 × 1–4 cm;

involucres broadly bowl-shaped, 4–15 mm, lobes 3–8, lanceolate, acuminate, undivided or 2- or 3-fid.

axillary or terminal, 30–100-flowered, ovoid or cylindric, elongate in fruit, 1–2.3 × 0.9–1.2 cm;

involucres absent.

3–13 cm.

0.5–2.5 cm.

straight, 1 mm;

bracteoles distinct or connate, broadly ovate, 1 mm.

straight, to 0.5 mm;

bracteoles obtuse, to 0.1 mm.

10–27 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–8 mm, glabrous, veins 10, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes 5–10, unequal, undivided or 3-fid, long-acuminate, orifice open;

corolla creamy white to yellow, pink to purple in age, keel petals rarely dark purple, 10–27 mm, banner broadly ovate, inflated in fruit, not distally twisted, 10–27 × 6–15 mm, apex rounded, erose.

5–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 5–8 mm, villous, veins 10, tube 1.2–1.8 mm, lobes purple or pink, subequal, setacous, orifice open, hairy;

corolla white to pink, 3–6 mm, much shorter than calyx, banner narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5–5.5 × 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse.

stipitate, linear, 7–8 mm.

ovoid, leathery distally, transversely dehiscent, 1.5–2 mm.

3–8, gray, mottled, globose, 1.6–2 mm, reticulate.

1, yellow, globose, 1 mm, smooth, glossy.

= 16.

= 14.