Flora of North America species comparison

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

single, erect or prostrate to ascending, 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.

(2–)3–8 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, papery;

leaflets 7–13, blades broadly or narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex obtuse, shallowly emarginate, or subacute, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–10-flowered, flowers loosely ascending or in age declined;

axis (1–)1.5–3.5(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2, minute when present.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

ascending, 2–5 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–2 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.

7.8–10.4 mm;

calyx often purplish, campanulate, 4–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2.5–3.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 5.9–6.6 mm, apex blunt.

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.

horizontal or declined, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, plumply ovoid or broadly oblong-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, subterete, (13–)15–25 × 11–15 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, translucent, somewhat lustrous, sparsely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 1–2.5 mm wide;

gynophore to 2 mm.

42–70.

19–24.

= 22.