Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or weakly ascending, 1.5–9+ cm underground, sparsely strigulose.

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.

1–7 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery-membranous throughout, (1.3–)2–5 mm;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades elliptic to oblong, 1.5–6 mm, apex emarginate, retuse, or obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

14–30-flowered;

axis 3–22 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 1–3(–6)-flowered;

axis 3–13 mm;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 4–12(–15) cm.

decumbent (in fruit), (1.5–)2–7 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

1–2 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.

10–16 mm;

calyx 4.6–7, black-strigulose, tube 3.4–6 mm, lobes triangular to lanceolate, 1–2.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9–9.7 mm.

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.

loosely ascending, green, often red-tinged, straight or slightly curved, ovoid, strongly turgid or bladdery, (15–)18–43 × 4.5–12(–15) mm, papery-membranous, black-strigose;

gynophore 0–1 mm.

8–17.

= 22.

= 24.