Flora of North America species comparison

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

mostly prostrate with upturned tips, strigose, strigulose, pilose, pilosulous, villous, or subtomentose.

(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.

1–6(–7.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–10(–11) mm, submembranous becoming scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3–17(–19) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

(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.

3–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 1–9 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.4–2.2 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.

5.9–11.8 mm;

calyx 3.2–7.6(–8.8) mm, strigose, tube 2.1–4(–4.1) mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, filiform-setaceous, or subulate, (1–)1.2–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla greenish to ochroleucous or purple, banner often suffused, margined, or veined purplish, pink, or lilac-purple, sometimes wing tips whitish;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 5.1–10 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.

ascending to spreading, stramineous or brown, incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, semi-ovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, compressed, 6–20 × 3.5–6.5 mm, thickly fleshy becoming leathery or papery, strigulose or villosulous.

34–77.

6–26.