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, diffusely spreading, densely gray-villosulous.

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.

1.2–3.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, to 7 mm, submembranous proximally, firm or herbaceous distally;

leaflets 7–15, blades narrowly obovate or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces villosulous abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–10-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 0.4–1.6 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.4–1.6 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–1.8 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.

6.2–7 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.6–4.5 mm, white-villosulous, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.3 mm;

corolla ivory-yellow, drying yellowish;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 4–4.9 mm, apex deltate, obscurely beaklike.

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.

declined, stramineous, straight, symmetrically or subsymmetrically lenticular-oblong, 3-sided compressed, 5–8.5 × 2.5–3 mm, thin becoming papery, villosulous.

42–70.

6–10.