Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent, with ascending tips, silvery green hairy.

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.

3–5.2 cm;

stipules triangular, 1–4.5 mm, papery;

leaflets: terminal ones jointed, blades flat, oval to obovate, (5.7–)8–9.3(–15) × (4.5–)6–7.5(–12) mm, surfaces strigose.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–7-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm, hyaline;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

prostrate, 1.3–2.5 cm, shorter than subtending leaf.

0.6–2 mm.

2.5–3 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.

20–23 mm;

calyx 11.4–12.7 mm, tube 8.7–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 2.7–3.5 mm;

corolla white tinged pinkish, fading cream.

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.

often red-mottled, 37–47 × 23–33 mm (when pressed), hairy;

sessile on thickened gynophore 1.2–1.5 mm.

(27–)30–36.

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