Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or prostrate, often with 2+ apparent internodes, internodes to 1–1.5 cm, hirsute or tomentose.

ascending or prostrate, finely strigulose.

2.5–7 cm;

stipules 3–8 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades broadly obovate to oblong-obovate or obovate-cuneate, (2–)3–12 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces hirsute and tomentose.

2.5–7 cm;

stipules 1.5–3 mm, herbaceous becoming papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (7 or)9–21, blades oblong-obovate to linear-oblong or -elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to subacute or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose, glabrous, or glabrate adaxially.

(3 or)4–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–6.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, decumbent in fruit, 2.5–6.5 cm.

ascending, 1.5–8(–10) cm.

1.7–4.5 mm.

0.8–1.7 mm.

(22–)24–29 mm;

calyx cylindro-campanulate, (11.5–)12.5–16 mm, densely hirsute, tube (8–)9.2–12.4 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 3–4.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing and keel tips maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (21.5–)24–27.5 mm.

6.5–10 mm;

calyx 3.4–4.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.2–2.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 0.9–2.2 mm;

corolla yellowish, yellowish white and lightly tinged rose, or greenish ochroleucous, banner violet-veined;

banner recurved through 45–85°;

keel 4.6–6.4 mm.

ascending (humistrate), ± straight proximally, gently incurved distally, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, obcompressed proximally, (25–)30–50 × 10–15 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, densely hirsute, hairs lustrous, wavy or contorted, (1–)2–2.5 mm.

pendulous, brown or stramineous, lunate, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 12–25 × 2.6–4 mm, papery, strigulose-villosulous;

septum 1.3–2.4 mm wide;

stipe 2.5–5 mm.

40–50.

11–16.