Flora of North America species comparison

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

1–10, erect to procumbent, branched or unbranched, 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.

irregularly pinnate to palmate;

stipules glandlike;

subsessile to short-petiolate;

rachis 2–8 mm, sometimes flattened;

leaflets 3–5, blades obovate to oblong or elliptic, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose.

3–9(–11)-flowered.

1-flowered.

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

bract 1(–3)-foliolate, distal.

ascending, filiform, (0 or)1–26(–55) mm, shorter to longer than leaves;

bract (1–)3-foliolate, distal.

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.

(2.5–)4–6 mm;

calyx 1–2.5 mm, tube sparsely strigillose, lobes subulate;

corolla pink or salmon, quickly fading, with yellowish wings and keel, claws longer than calyx tube, banner implicate, wings ± equaling to slightly longer than 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 or spreading, brown or tawny, curved or straight, compressed, constricted, not septate, narrowly oblong, 15–27 × 2–2.5 mm, thinly leathery, apex short hook-beaked, dehiscent, smooth, margins smooth, thin, wavy, glabrous or sparsely strigillose.

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

3–9, brown, not mottled, subglobose to shortly oblong, smooth.

= 14.