Flora of North America species comparison

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

clustered, ascending to erect, strigose.

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.

1.3–4.8 cm;

stipules 2–4 mm;

leaflets 5–13, blades lanceolate to oblong or elliptic, 2–8 mm, margins involute and not ciliate, 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.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis 0.2–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

reclined in fruit, 0.8–4.5 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

0.8–1.5 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.

7.2–8 mm;

calyx 3.3–4 mm, strigose, tube 2.2–2.5 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips white.

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.

mottled, straight or nearly so, ovoid, 11–18 × 8–12 mm, membranous, opaque, strigose.

42–70.

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