Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to ascending, strigulose.

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.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, (2–)3–10 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

6–15-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

divaricate and spreading-incurved, 2.5–7 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.8–2.5 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.

8.6–10.8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.4–3.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.4 mm;

corolla keel 8.2–9.6 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.

purplish, gently to strongly incurved to 0.5 spiral, 12–16 × 3.6–5 mm, incompletely bilocular, wider than high in cross section, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigose, hairs ± 1 mm;

septum 0.6–1 mm wide;

stipe 2–5 mm.

(27–)30–36.