Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, with ascending tips, silvery green hairy.

erect or ascending, densely silvery white-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.

(2.5–)5–15(–16.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, papery;

leaflet blades linear or linear-oblong, (3–)5–25(–34) mm, apex truncate-emarginate or subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, densely silvery white-strigulose adaxially.

2–7-flowered;

axis 0.5–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm, hyaline;

bracteoles 0.

(4 or)5–20(–28)-flowered;

axis (2–)3–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

erect, (5–)7–20 cm.

2.5–3 mm.

0.9–3 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.

15–22 mm;

calyx 5.5–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 3.6–5 mm, lobes subulate, (1.5–)1.8–4.3 mm;

corolla keel 10.7–15.3 mm.

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

sessile on thickened gynophore 1.2–1.5 mm.

brownish or stramineous, strongly laterally compressed, 12–28 × 4–7.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

septum 3.5–6 mm wide;

stipitate (stipe 4–8 mm).

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