Flora of North America species comparison

usually prostrate or weakly ascending, sometimes erect, 0–20 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely strigose-strigulose.

2–13 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 2–13 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1–)5–21, blades elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 3–20 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

calyx cylindric, tube (5.8–)7–10.5 mm, lobes 1.5–3.7(–4.5) mm;

corolla banner (16.2–)19–24.5 mm;

keel (13.2–)14.3–18.8(–19.6) mm.

10.3–27(–28) mm;

calyx usually purplish, cylindric, campanulate, or cylindro-campanulate, 6.3–14.2 mm, strigose, tube (3.4–)5.8–13.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–3.7(–4.5) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–23.6 mm.

15–40 mm, curved.

readily deciduous, ascending, green, sometimes mottled, usually incurved, crescentic, mostly dorsiventrally compressed, 15–40 × 5–12 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

(42–)44–56.

42–70.

= 22.