Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent to ascending.

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.

2–10 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–3.5 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery or membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate to oval, 3–14 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or mucronate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

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

axis (1–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–9-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.3–2.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

ascending or incurved, 1.5–4.5 cm.

1.5–4(–4.5) mm.

1–2.5 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.

7.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–6.2 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.4 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged lavender;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 6.5–8 mm, apex deltate, sometimes obscurely 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.

spreading to declined, greenish, often purple-mottled, becoming stramineous or brownish, slightly incurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, inflated, 14–22 × 6–13 mm, thin becoming papery, minutely strigulose to glabrate;

gynophore 1–2.5 mm.

2–6.

9–13.

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