Flora of North America species comparison

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

obsolete, ascending, or prostrate, radiating from root-crown, to 3 cm, internodes mostly obscured by leaf bases, silky-strigose to 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.

(1.5–)2.5–10 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–13, blades obovate-cuneate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, 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.

2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(–2), exceptionally conspicuous.

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

ascending, 0.5–3(–5) cm.

2–7.5 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.

(14.5–)15–18.5 mm;

calyx cylindric or vase-shaped, 6–10.5 mm, strigulose, hairs black or white, tube 6.5–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla white, whitish, or ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8.3–14.3 mm.

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.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green or purplish becoming brownish or stramineous, scarcely to moderately incurved, obliquely ovoid, lanceolate-ovoid, or lunately ellipsoid, obcompressed becoming laterally compressed distally, 9–20(–22) × 4–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, leathery, walls much less than 1 mm thick, densely strigulose.

34–77.

18–33.