Flora of North America species comparison

sprawling or climbing, filiform, 1–5 dm.

sprawling or climbing, slender, 3–15 dm.

1–4 cm;

tendrils simple or branched;

stipules much smaller than leaflets, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 4–12, blades oblanceolate or elliptic to linear, 6–20 × 1–5 mm, apex acute to apiculate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely villous.

2–8 cm;

tendrils mucronate on proximal leaves, simple or branched on distal leaves;

stipules much smaller than leaflets, ligulate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 10–24, blades elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate to linear, 10–30 × 2–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous or abaxial puberulent.

1–3-flowered, 1–3 cm, equal to or longer than subtending leaf rachis.

7–20-flowered, 3–10 cm, shorter to longer than subtending leaf rachis.

3–6 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes unequal, longer than or equal to tube;

corolla light purple to pale lavender, banner stenonychioid, blade equal to claw, glabrous;

style compressed abaxially, sparsely pubescent apically.

8–12 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes subequal, shorter than tube;

corolla white with blue tip, banner pandurate, blade equal to or longer than claw, glabrous;

style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically, tufted abaxially.

yellow to light brown, oblong, 10–15 × 3–4 mm, tip rounded, stigma attached to center of curve, glabrous;

stipe to 1 mm.

reddish brown, narrowly oblong, 15–30 × 4–5 mm, obliquely long-tipped, glabrous;

stipe to 2 mm.

4, greenish gray to purplish black, subglobose, 1.5–2 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/5–1/4 circumference of seed.

5–8 violet brown to black, compressed-subglobose or subglobose, 2–4 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 3/4 circumference of seed.

= 14.