Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or prostrate, sparsely strigulose, sometimes glabrous proximally.

slender, decumbent to incurved-ascending, strigulose.

(2–)4–10(–12) cm;

stipules (1.5–)2–8 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets (9–)13–25(or 27), blades firm, oval, obovate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or suborbiculate, (2–)3–11(–13) mm, veins not apparent, apex round, truncate, or retuse, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2–)2.5–8.5 cm;

stipules: proximals connate-sheathing, bidentate scarious at proximal nodes, distinct or connate at base and subherbaceous at distal nodes, 2–5 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2–8 mm, apex obtuse or subapiculate, surfaces strigulose.

(5–)10–21-flowered;

axis 1.5–5(–7.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–10(–14)-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

decumbent or prostrate, (2–)5–15 cm.

ascending to declined, 2–5.5 cm.

0.8–2.4 mm.

8.2–15.5 mm;

calyx 3.1–6.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.4–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple, purplish, or whitish, fading yellowish, sometimes wing tips whitish, banner veins lilac, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 5.5–9.3 mm, apex blunt.

5–6 mm;

calyx 3.3–4 mm, strigose, hairs white or black, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.4 mm.

usually ascending, rarely declined (humistrate), green becoming brown then blackish, incurved, narrowly lunate-ellipsoid to obliquely oblong-, ovoid-, or obovoid-ellipsoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–25 × 3.5–7 mm, subunilocular, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, not especially reticulate, glabrous;

gynophore 0.4–1.4 mm.

pendulous (or humistrate), red-mottled, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, strigulose;

gynophore 0.5–1 mm.

16–37.

12–14(–16).