Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, mostly obconic crowns with thatch of stipules, or developed, to 4(–7) cm, internodes to 1 cm, villous-hirsute (white-felted), sometimes also tomentose.

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–)4–15 cm;

stipules mostly obscuring internodes, 3–8 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, blades obovate-cuneate, broadly elliptic, or suborbiculate, 4–14 mm, thick, apex usually obtuse or subtruncate, rarely subacute, surfaces villous-hirsute.

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

axis (2–)2.5–12(–17) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm.

5–16-flowered, flowers loosely spreading-ascending;

axis (1–)2–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

erect, 2.5–13 cm.

ascending, (2.5–)5–13 cm.

0.8–4(–4.8) mm.

0.8–3.1 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.

12–17.7 mm;

calyx short-cylindric to deeply campanulate, (5.5–)5.8–9.7 mm, villous-hirsute or villosulous, tube 5–7.3 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.8–2.7 mm;

corolla white, with dull lavender tinge, keel and wings tipped with dark purple;

banner recurved through 40°.

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.

ascending or incurved-ascending (humistrate), brownish stramineous, not mottled, incurved through 0.5+ spiral, obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, ± dorsiventrally compressed, laterally compressed at both ends, obcompressed at middle, (15–)20–55 × 6–16 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, strigulose.

42–71(–76).

26–49.