Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, leafless basally, strigulose.

decumbent to erect, sterile branches forming tuft of sub-basal leaves, strigose, strigulose, or villous.

3.5–5.5 cm;

stipules 1–6 mm, membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous with membranous margins at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–13, blades oblong-elliptic, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear-oblong, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or obtuse and apiculate, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

1.5–20 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing (bidentate) at proximal nodes, shortly connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–9 mm, papery-membranous throughout or, sometimes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 3–21, blades linear, oblong, elliptic, linear-elliptic, linear-oblanceolate, lanceolate, oblong-elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, or, rarely, filiform-subulate (distally), 2–30(–42) × 0.5–7 mm, apex acute, obtuse, acuminate, apiculate, or, rarely, retuse, surfaces strigose, glabrescent, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely hairy adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

subcapitate, loosely 2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

3–19(–24)-flowered, flowers spreading-declined;

axis 1–14 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–4 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

ascending, 1.2–2.5 cm.

usually incurved-ascending, 2–14 cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

0.8–3 mm.

(17–)18.1–19.5(–20) mm;

calyx cylindric, (9.5–10–11.5(–13) mm, strigose, tube 7–8.2 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate-subulate, 2.4–4.5 mm;

corolla white or whitish, keel maculate;

banner incurved through 35°;

keel 13.1–13.6 mm.

5.3–10.6 mm;

calyx (2.3–)2.4–6 mm, strigose, tube 1.7–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–2.6 mm;

corolla lilac, pink-purple, ochroleucous, or whitish, often suffused, lined, or veined with purple;

banner recurved through 40–90°;

keel 5.9–10.7(–11.4) mm, apex beaklike.

ascending (humistrate), green, incurved through 0.25–0.5+ spiral, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 25–40 × 8.5–10.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming subligneous, prominently cross-reticulate, glabrous.

declined-pendulous; green, sometimes with purple speckles, becoming brown or stramineous, straight or nearly so, linear, linear-oblong, linear-ellipsoid, or oblanceoloid, laterally compressed, bicarinate by sutures, 11–25 × (1.2–)2–4 mm, papery, usually strigulose, villosulous, or glabrous, rarely with few hairs;

stipe 0–1 mm.

48–51.

6–19.