Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, or decumbent, 2–8 cm underground, strigulose.

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.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–5.5 mm, herbaceous;

leaflets 9–23, blades linear, narrowly oblong, or elliptic, 1–33 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose or glabrous;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

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

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

6–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

ascending, 1–6.5 cm.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

1.4–4.3 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.

15–19 mm;

calyx cylindric, 5.5–8.7 mm, strigose, tube 4.7–7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.8 mm;

corolla white to yellowish and tinged faintly with pink, sometimes lightly suffused with pink-purple on drying, keel tip faintly to darkly purple;

keel 10.2–13 mm.

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.

pendulous, green or purple-mottled becoming stramineous or brownish, strongly incurved or coiled, obliquely oblong, sharply 4-sided compressed, 20–40 × 6–10 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose.

2–6.

28–38.