Flora of North America species comparison

few or single, prostrate, 2–10 cm underground, densely strigulose.

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

1–3(–4.5) cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1–2.5 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–13, blades obovate, cuneate-obovate, or oblanceolate, 3–9(–14) mm, apex obtuse or retuse to obcordate, surfaces ashy-strigose.

2.5–7 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, herbaceous becoming papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–21, blades oblong-obovate to linear-oblong or -elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose, glabrous, or glabrate adaxially.

(4–)6–10(–13)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.5–1.5(–2) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

spreading or incurved, (0.3–)0.5–2.2 cm.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

1–2 mm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

6.4–8.3 mm;

calyx (2.8–)4.1–5 mm, strigulose, tube 1.9–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, (0.9–)1.5–2.3 mm;

corolla dull stramineous, banner veins lilac, keel tip maculate;

keel 8.8–8.3 mm.

6.5–10 mm;

calyx 3.4–4.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.2–2.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 0.9–2.2 mm;

corolla yellowish, yellowish white and lightly tinged rose, or greenish ochroleucous, banner violet-veined;

banner recurved through 45–85°;

keel 4.6–6.4 mm.

spreading or ascending (humistrate), green or purplish becoming stramineous, straight, ovoid or ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35 × 12–26 mm, bilocular, thin becoming papery, sparsely strigulose.

pendulous, brown or stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 12–25 × 2.6–4 mm, papery, strigulose-villosulous;

septum 1.3–2.4 mm wide;

stipe 2.5–5 mm.

25–32.

11–16.