Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and incurved-ascending or erect, sparsely to densely strigulose or glabrate.

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, clumps often as tall as wide, strigulose-villosulous.

1.5–9.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and submembranous at distal nodes, 1–4 mm, not blackened when dry;

leaflets 11–19, blades elliptic to oblong, lanceolate, or broadly oval, 3–17(–19) mm, apex acute to obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

3–8.5 cm;

stipules mostly distinct, some shortly connate-sheathing, 2–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–17, blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 3–20 mm, apex truncate to retuse, mucronate, or acute, surfaces strigulose.

(1–)3–13-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

decumbent or humistrate (in fruit), 3–10(–14) cm.

incurved, 1–4 cm.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

0.8–3.6 mm.

8–10.5 mm;

calyx (3.4–)4.5–6.7 mm, strigose, tube (2.6–)3–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, (0.8–)1.2–2.9 mm;

corolla pink-purple, or whitish and purple-tipped;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 6.7–8.8 mm.

6.3–8.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.8–6.6 mm, villous, tube 2.3–3 mm, lobes subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, fading yellowish;

banner recurved through 60–90°;

keel 5.8–6.8 mm, apex bluntly or sharply triangular, often beaklike.

pendulous, brown, straight or nearly so, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, laterally flattened, (7–)9–15 × 3–4.2 mm, thinly papery, strigose;

stipe 1–1.5(–2) mm.

deciduous from receptacle, declined, green, often brightly purple- or red-mottled, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, inflated, not strongly bladdery, gently obcompressed, 13–21 × 7–11 mm, firmly papery, villosulous, hairs spreading, incurved, to 0.7 mm.

2–6.

20–28.