Flora of North America species comparison

erect or stiffly ascending, stout, with 5–10 well-developed internodes, pilose and tomentulose.

prostrate and radiating, 0–10 cm, internodes usually concealed by stipules, densely pannose-tomentose.

(9–)13–35 cm;

stipules distinct 6–17 mm, herbaceous;

leaflet blades broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovate, oblong-elliptic, or rhombic-elliptic, (7–)10–55 mm, apex acute or abruptly short-acuminate, often callous-apiculate, surfaces pilose and tomentulose.

1.5–12 cm;

stipules 3–10 mm, membranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate or suborbiculate to ovate, 2–15 mm, apex usually obtuse to emarginate, sometimes acute, surfaces densely villous-tomentose.

(15–)20–55(–65)-flowered;

axis (3–)5–20(–24) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.4–2.6 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, (8–)10–27 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

ascending, decumbent in fruit, 1–14 cm.

(1.2–)1.5–9 mm.

2–4.3 mm.

(14.4–)15.5–22 mm;

calyx (7.8–)10–14.7 mm, silky-pilose or tomentulose, tube (6–)7–8.7 mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate or linear-lanceolate, 3–6.5 mm;

corolla immaculate;

keel (11.5–)12–15.1 mm.

23–31 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–14 mm, villous-tomentose, tube 8.5–13 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 2–4.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (16–)17–22 mm.

stiffly erect, becoming brownish stramineous then blackish, 15–25 × 8–13 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous.

initially ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, ± straight, lanceoloid-ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid-acuminate, obcompressed, 17–30 × 5.5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or thinly leathery, shaggy-villous, hairs 4–8 mm, obscuring surface;

sessile and gynophore 1–2.5 mm.

22–31.

= 22.

= 22.