Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending and radiating, to 6(–9) cm underground, 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.

(4–)6–18 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 2–7(–9) mm, membranous or subherbaceous, strigulose abaxially; petiolate;

leaflets (11–)15–25(–29), blades elliptic, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, rhombic-elliptic, or oblong-obovate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse, subacute, or retuse, surfaces cinereous-strigulose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(10–)15–30-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (2.5–)3.5–11.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

erect or ascending, 3.5–10 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1.3–3.4 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.

16–23 mm;

calyx purplish or reddish, cylindro-campanulate, 10.4–14.7 mm, finely strigulose, tube 7.3–10 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate, (2.6–)3–5 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple, keel maculate;

keel 15.4–18.1 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.

pale green or suffused purple becoming stramineous suffused with brown-purple, usually straight, rarely slightly incurved, broadly and plumply oblong-cylindroid, oblong-ellipsoid, or more narrowly cylindro- or clavate-ellipsoid, terete or slightly laterally or dorsiventrally compressed, 25–45(–50) × (8–)10–21 mm, bilocular, fleshy and succulent, becoming thick and plump, mesocarp at least 1.5 mm, glabrous.

42–70.

(41–)45–66.

= 24.