Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, subappressed-pilose, densely white-tomentose basally.

prostrate, when developed, to 8 cm, internodes often obscured by stipules, strigulose.

3.5–9(–10.5) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–8 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 11–19(–23), blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or narrowly oblong, (3–)5–15(–18) mm, apex acute to obtuse or apiculate, surfaces villous.

1–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–7 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets (3–)7–17, blades elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrate adaxially.

(5–)10–25-flowered, flowers spreading and declined;

axis (1.5–)3–10.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–16(–18)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.4–13 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 0.5–5(–7) cm.

erect and ascending, 0.5–13 cm.

0.4–1.5 mm.

0.5–1.4(–2) mm.

4.5–6(–7) mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–5.5 mm, villous-villosulous, tube 1.7–2.2 mm, lobes subulate-setaceous, (1.3–)1.5–3 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged lilac, drying yellowish;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel (3.6–)4–5 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

6–9 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–6 mm, strigose-pilose, tube 2.5–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple or bicolored;

keel 5.9–12.5 mm.

reflexed, pale green, straight, subsymmetrically lanceoloid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid, 3-sided or laterally compressed, 6–8.5(–9) × 2–2.7(–3) mm, papery, tomentulose.

declined to deflexed, green, usually red-mottled or -spotted, becoming stramineous, ± straight or lunately to very strongly incurved through 0.75(–1) spiral, obliquely ovoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 6–19 × 3–6 mm, unilocular, papery-membranous, hirsute, hairs lustrous;

sessile, gynophore 0–1.2 mm.

6–8.

16–28.