Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, with ascending tips, silvery green hairy.

single or to 3, prostrate to ascending or erect, strigulose.

3–5.2 cm;

stipules triangular, 1–4.5 mm, papery;

leaflets: terminal ones jointed, blades flat, oval to obovate, (5.7–)8–9.3(–15) × (4.5–)6–7.5(–12) mm, surfaces strigose.

(1.5–)2–10.5(–12) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, thinly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades linear, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, rarely obcordate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

2–7-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm, hyaline;

bracteoles 0.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

prostrate, 1.3–2.5 cm, shorter than subtending leaf.

incurved-ascending, 0.6–2.5 cm.

2.5–3 mm.

0.6–1.5 mm.

20–23 mm;

calyx 11.4–12.7 mm, tube 8.7–9.7 mm, lobes subulate, 2.7–3.5 mm;

corolla white tinged pinkish, fading cream.

5–7.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, (2–)2.7–3.8(–4) mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish, suffused with purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.8 mm, apex obtuse, deltate.

often red-mottled, 37–47 × 23–33 mm (when pressed), hairy;

sessile on thickened gynophore 1.2–1.5 mm.

spreading to declined, green or suffused purple, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 15–24 × 6–12 mm, unilocular or semibilocular, thin becoming papery, strigose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 0.2–1.5 mm wide.

26.

7–18.