21. Palmater agrees, up to a point.22. The leaves are alternate, and compound ( usually palmate ), with pulvinate leaflets. 23. These are compound leaves consisting of 3-6 leaflets arrayed in a palmate manner. 24. The bracts surrounding the flowers are leaflike and palmate in shape, with several lobes. 25. The leaves are oval with pointed tips, not palmate as in most other lupines. 26. The leaves are deciduous, up to long and equally wide, with five palmate lobes. 27. Each palmate leaf is made up of 6 to 8 leaflets up to 8 centimeters long. 28. Members of the genus typically bear toothed leaves with three or five palmate , uneven lobes. 29. Palmater has denounced what she perceives as the federal government's " assimilationist agenda ".30. Still, Pleasants and Palmater find a lot less politics marbled into today's folk menu.
