Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or decumbent, 1–9 cm underground, sparsely strigulose.

decumbent or prostrate with ascending tips, silvery-canescent or silvery- to gray-strigulose.

(2–)3.5–18 cm;

stipules distinct, 3–10 mm, submembranous, glabrous abaxially; petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)15–33, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, obovate, suborbiculate, or broadly oval to linear-elliptic, (2–)3–24 mm, apex obtuse, acute, subacute, or truncate-emarginate, sometimes apiculate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous or glabrescent adaxially.

2–8(–10) cm;

stipules 2–4 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (5–)9–15(or 17), blades linear, linear-oblong, linear-elliptic, narrowly lanceolate, or oval, (1.5–)3–17(–21) mm, apex obtuse to apiculate or acute, surfaces strigulose.

(5–)6–25(–35)-flowered, flowers ascending or slightly arched;

axis 1–7(–14) cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)10–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2(–3) mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending to spreading, (1.5–)2–16 cm.

erect or divaricate and incurved, (1.5–)2.5–10(–15) cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.5–2.2 mm.

(16–)16.5–25(–27) mm;

calyx usually broadly or deeply campanulate or cylindro-campanulate, rarely cylindric, (6.6–)7.7–14 mm, densely strigulose, pilosulous, ascending-pilose, or villosulous-tomentulose, tube (5.2–)5.6–9.7 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (1.3–)1.7–4.2(–5.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, red-purple, white, whitish (faintly lilac-tinged), lilac, ochroleucous, or suffused pinkish lilac;

keel (10.7–)12–20.7 mm.

(8.7–)9–12 mm;

calyx (4.5–)5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3.3–4.1 mm, lobes broadly to slenderly subulate, (1.2–)1.4–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips pale or white and ± suffused with greenish yellow, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 8.2–10.4 mm, apex narrowly triangular, acute, beaklike.

green, often red-mottled or suffused with red on adaxial surface, becoming brown or blackish, straight, globose, subglobose, broadly and plumply oblong-ellipsoid, oblong-ovoid, or oblong-obovoid, ± obcompressed, 15–40 × 12–27 mm, fleshy becoming alveolate-spongy or pithy, wrinkled on drying, mesocarp at least 1.2 mm thick, glabrous.

erect or ascending, straight or gently incurved, linear-oblong or linear, obtusely 3-sided compressed, 15–30 × (2.2–)2.5–4.5 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

34–77.

14–22.

= 16, 26.