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 to ascending or spreading, villous-tomentulose or white-pannose.

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.

4–10 cm;

stipules 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets 21–29, blades ovate, obovate, oval, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 12–30-flowered;

axis 2.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

ascending, drooping or humistrate in fruit, 4–14 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–1.5 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.

14.2–17.5 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 7.5–9 mm, villous, tube 5.2–6.2 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, concolorous, banner veined or suffused with purple;

keel 10.2–12.9 mm.

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.

pendulous but appearing otherwise when humistrate, green-stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, lanceoloid-oblong, semi-ellipsoid, distinctly 3-sided compressed, 8–16 × 3.2–5.5 mm, leathery, villous-tomentulose;

septum 1.1–1.8 mm wide;

stipe 4–8.5 mm, pubescent.

42–70.

12–16.