Flora of North America species comparison

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

very slender, prostrate-spreading, 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.

(1–)2–11.5(–15) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflet blades linear-filiform to narrowly oblong, involute or conduplicate, 5–27 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

of subradical inflorescences 1(or 2)-flowered, others 2–5(–7)-flowered;

axis filiform, 0.5–6(–8) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

pendulous or ascending, humistrate in fruit, 2.5–14(–17) cm (early subradical, shorter than leaves, later much surpassing leaves).

0.6–2.5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

4–6(–7) mm;

calyx 2.7–4 mm, black-strigose, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.9–2 mm;

corolla keel 3.5–4.5 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.

greenish or purple-dotted becoming brownish stramineous, 10–18 × 3.5–5 mm, thin becoming papery, strigose;

septum 1.2–2 mm wide;

stipe 0–1 mm.

42–70.

= 22.