Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or ascending, 0–6 cm, internodes mostly concealed by stipules, densely to sparsely strigose.

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.

1.2–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 3–11 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or acuminate to acute, surfaces strigose, hairs subappressed and silvery-silky.

10–25-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 3–12 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–8.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 1–8 cm.

0.6–2 mm.

0.8–3 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.

17–24 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10–13.2 mm, pilosulous, tube 7.3–9.4 mm, lobes subulate, 2–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, often pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 17–19 mm, 2 mm shorter than banner.

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.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), sessile or subsessile, gently or abruptly incurved, ovoid-acuminate, obcompressed, 10–23 × 7–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely shaggy-hirsute, hairs concealing surface, longest hairs 2–3.5 mm.

(27–)30–36.

27–36.