Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, softly villous-hirsute or shaggy-villous.

prostrate, radiating from crown, strigulose, hirsutulous, or subvillosulous.

4–13 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing or distinct at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–12 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflet blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 4–33 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1–4.5(–8) cm;

stipules mostly distinct, 1.5–3.5(–5) mm, membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19(or 21), blades oval-obovate, obcordate, cuneate-oblanceolate, or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–10(–14) mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose or glabrous adaxially.

14–30-flowered;

axis 3–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis (0–)0.3–2.5(–3.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

erect, 4–12(–15) cm.

(1–)2–6(–10) cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.5–2 mm.

(16–)18–25 mm;

calyx 7–12.5 mm, sparsely villous, tube 4.7–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–4.5 mm;

corolla keel 12–15 mm.

(6–)7.3–11.2 mm;

calyx 3.6–6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.9–3.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate to subulate, 1.3–2.5(–2.9) mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (4.5–)4.8–6.6 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

stramineous, 17–32 × 3.5–5.5 mm, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or leathery, glabrous;

septum 0.6–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 5–11 mm.

spreading, declined, or ascending, green or purple-tinged becoming pale brown or stramineous, straight or incurved through 0.25–0.5 spiral, linear-oblong to lanceoloid-oblong, 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 8–20(–22) × (2–)2.2–3.7 mm, ± bilocular, papery, glabrous.

(8–)10–15.

= 22.