Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or decumbent with ascending tips, 1.5–12+ cm underground, densely silky-villosulous.

(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.

(0.7–)1–3 cm;

stipules mostly connate throughout, sometimes distinct at distal nodes, 1–3 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 9–13(or 15), blades oval, obovate-cuneate, or oblong-obovate, 2–8 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces villous abaxially, 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.

6–12-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

incurved-ascending, (1–)2–4.5 cm.

2–7.5 mm.

0.8–2 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.

10–13 mm;

calyx 4.8–6.6 mm, loosely villosulous, tube 3–4.6 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1.2–2.1 mm;

corolla whitish, tinged with pinkish lavender, fading cream;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel 6.7–8 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 or ascending (sometimes humistrate), green or purplish-cheeked becoming stramineous, almost straight to incurved through 0.3 spiral, obliquely ovoid-acuminate or lanceoloid-ovoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 15–20 × 6–9 mm, ± bilocular, slightly fleshy becoming papery, shortly villosulous.

34–77.

18–28.

= 22.