Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

prostrate, 0–15 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely white-pilose.

(3–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate and scarious-papery at proximal nodes, distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflets (17–)21–29, blades flat or loosely folded, oblong-oblanceolate or elliptic, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

2–11 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 9–21, blades obovate, suborbiculate, or lanceolate, 2–13 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous.

(5–)10–30-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–19 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(2–)4–11 cm.

erect or arcuate-ascending, spreading or procumbent in fruit, 2–8(–12) cm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

1–1.5 mm.

5.8–8 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.4–4.3 mm, strigulose, hairs black and/or white, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla whitish or, sometimes, greenish ochroleucous, immaculate;

banner abruptly incurved through 90°;

keel 4.2–5.6 mm.

16–26 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric, 6.8–13.3 mm, villous-pilose, tube 5.5–10.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3.2 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (12–)13–20.7 mm.

stramineous, straight or slightly incurved or decurved, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate, 3-sided compressed, 15–30 × (2.5–)3–4 mm, bilocular, papery, glabrous;

valves inflexed as complete septum 1.4–1.9 mm wide;

stipe 1.5–2.5 mm.

ascending-spreading, stramineous, incurved, oblong-ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–20 × 5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, hirsute, longest hairs 2–2.5 mm, not obscuring surface.

12–16.

24–34.