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, with ascending tips, silvery green hairy.

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.

3–5.2 cm;

stipules triangular, 1–4.5 mm, papery;

leaflets: terminal ones jointed, blades flat, oval to obovate, (5.7–)8–9.3(–15) × (4.5–)6–7.5(–12) mm, surfaces strigose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–7-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm, hyaline;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

prostrate, 1.3–2.5 cm, shorter than subtending leaf.

0.6–2.5 mm.

2.5–3 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.

20–23 mm;

calyx 11.4–12.7 mm, tube 8.7–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 2.7–3.5 mm;

corolla white tinged pinkish, fading cream.

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.

often red-mottled, 37–47 × 23–33 mm (when pressed), hairy;

sessile on thickened gynophore 1.2–1.5 mm.

42–70.

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