Flora of North America species comparison

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

± obsolete, internodes obscured by stipules.

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.

2–9 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9 or 11, blades oblanceolate to obovate, (4.5–)5–11 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

3–8-flowered, flowers spreading-ascending;

axis 3–15 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

1.3–6 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

19–27 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10–11.5 mm, strigulose, tube 8.5–10 mm, lobes 1–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple, fading or drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 45°.

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 (humistrate), green or purplish (not mottled), turgidly lanceoloid-ovoid (much broader basally), 15–25(–27) × 7–15 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming alveolate-spongy, walls 1+ mm thick, exocarp and endocarp separated by thick, pulpy mesocarp, strigulose.

42–70.

38.