Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, decumbent to erect, branched, herbaceous, often striate, leafy.

1–20+, procumbent to low-ascending, branched, herbaceous, leafy.

irregularly pinnate;

stipules glandlike, conic; petiolate or sessile;

rachis 2–3.5(–5.5) mm, not flattened;

leaflets 7–9(–12), blades usually elliptic to obovate, sometimes ovate, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces sparsely to densely puberulent or villosulous to strigillose.

pinnate or palmate;

stipules glandlike, sometimes absent;

subsessile or sessile;

rachis 4–10 mm, flattened;

leaflets (3 or)4(or 5), usually 2 on one side and 2 terminal, blades elliptic to obovate(–oblanceolate), apex usually obtuse, sometimes acute, surfaces villous to pubescent.

3–9(–11)-flowered.

1-flowered.

ascending or spreading, 10–80 mm, longer than leaves;

bract 1(–3)-foliolate, distal.

± sessile;

bract absent.

12–25 mm;

calyx (4.5–)5.5–10 mm, tube villosulous, lobes subulate;

corolla greenish white, white or yellow, fading to rose or reddish, claws shorter than calyx tube, banner ascending 45–90°, wings longer than banner and keel;

style nearly straight or basally curved, glabrous.

5–9 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, accrescent, tube villous, lobes lanceolate;

corolla pale yellow, reddish-tipped, turning red, claws shorter than calyx tube, banner horizontal to ascending to 90°, wings ± equaling keel;

style curved, glabrous.

persistent, exserted, brown, linear-oblong, straight, turgid, sometimes slightly constricted, incompletely septate, 25–42(–70) × 2–3 mm, leathery, apex short hook-beaked, dehiscent, smooth, margins smooth, thickened, glabrate.

persistent, exserted, erect, brown or tawny, straight, compressed, slightly constricted, not septate, oblong, 6–12(–14) × 3–4 mm, stiffly papery, apex obtuse, dehiscent, smooth, margins smooth, thin, villous.

5–9, olive to reddish brown, mottled, broadly ovoid, smooth.

(2 or)3(–5), tan to dark brown or blackish, faintly mottled, lenticular-elliptic (asymmetric), smooth.

= 12.