Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending or erect, glabrous or strigose.

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.

2–15 cm;

stipules 2–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7–)11–27, blades orbiculate, suborbiculate, elliptic, rhombic-elliptic, rhombic-ovate, oblong-ovate, ovate, or obovate, 3–25 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, retuse, or apiculate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

7–16-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–7 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 3–15 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–3.5 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.

(16–)16.5–21 mm;

calyx short-cylindric to deeply campanulate, 7–13.5 mm, sparsely strigulose or glabrous, tube 3.5–6.8 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 2–7.1 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, yellowish, whitish, cream, or purple (wing tips sometimes pale or white);

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 11.5–15.5 mm.

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.

ascending to declined, pale green, often purple-mottled, becoming brownish or stramineous, sharply incurved, obliquely ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, (15–)20–30 × 6–12 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

septum narrow, subobsolete, to 1.5 mm wide;

gynophore 1.5–5 mm.

42–70.

18–41.