Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, trailing, erect, or ascending, mostly strigulose or villosulous, often glabrous or glabrate at proximal nodes.

erect or ascending, sparsely to densely strigulose.

5–16(–18) cm;

stipules distinct 1.5–6.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, firm or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11 or)13–25, blades ovate, obovate, oblong-elliptic, elliptic, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear-oblong, 5–25(–30) mm, apex usually obtuse, retuse, or truncate and apiculate, rarely subacute, surfaces glabrous.

(3–)4.5–18 cm;

stipules 3–11 mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–25, blades ovate, oblong, elliptic, or narrowly oblong to linear, 5–26 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, usually glabrous adaxially, sometimes glabrate.

(10–)12–30(–35)-flowered, flowers subhorizontal or ascending;

axis (2–)2.5–12(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm.

(7–)10–26(–30)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 4–10(–15) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, 2.5–13 cm.

erect, (1.5–)2.5–17(–35) cm.

0.8–4(–4.8) mm.

spreading in fruit, 0.7–3.5 mm.

(6.4–)7.8–13 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, 4–6.6 mm, strigulose, tube (2.5–)2.6–4.3 mm, lobes subulate, deltate, or triangular, 0.7–2.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, yellowish, or greenish white;

banner abruptly recurved through 60–90°, (6.4–)7.8–13 mm;

keel (6.2–)7.1–10.8 mm, apex narrowly deltate and triangular, subacute, somewhat beaklike.

12–20 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 5.4–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 4.4–8 mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.7–2.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, tinged pink, purplish, pink-purple, or red-violet, keel maculate or immaculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–14.4 mm.

spreading or ascending (sometimes humistrate), pale green, sometimes purple-tinged or -speckled, becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid, semi-ovoid or semi-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 25–60 × 12–32 mm, beak prominent, papery, ± lustrous, usually strigulose, rarely glabrescent.

usually erect, rarely deflexed, green or suffused or speckled with purple becoming brownish stramineous, oblong to ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, grooved dorsally, keeled ventrally, 12–27(–30) × 3.5–8(–9) mm, base cuneate, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming thinly or stiffly leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.5–1.2 mm wide;

stipe 6–15(–17) mm.

42–71(–76).

17–32.

= 22, 24.