Flora of North America species comparison

single or few, decumbent-ascending, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

prostrate, 0–15 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely white-pilose.

4.5–11 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets 11–21(or 23), blades obovate-cuneate, ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, or suborbiculate, 5–20 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate and glaucescent.

2–11 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 9–21, blades obovate, suborbiculate, or lanceolate, 2–13 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

erect or arcuate-ascending, spreading or procumbent in fruit, 2–8(–12) cm.

0.6–2 mm.

1–1.5 mm.

12–15 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.9–7.6 mm, strigulose, tube 4.5–5.6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla reddish purple with white or lilac wing tips;

keel 9.5–10.6 mm.

16–26 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric, 6.8–13.3 mm, villous-pilose, tube 5.5–10.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3.2 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (12–)13–20.7 mm.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green suffused or dotted red becoming stramineous, straight to incurved, oblong or broadly oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 15–37 × 8–21 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming papery, stiffly leathery, or subligneous, glabrous;

septum to 3.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–8 mm.

ascending-spreading, stramineous, incurved, oblong-ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–20 × 5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, hirsute, longest hairs 2–2.5 mm, not obscuring surface.

(27–)30–36.

24–34.