Flora of North America species comparison

slender, ascending, strigulose.

aerial tips prostrate or ascending, nodes short, strigulose-pilosulous and ashy gray.

2–4 cm;

stipules connate, bidentate, 2.5–5 mm, membranous;

leaflets 9–15, blades ovate-elliptic, 2.5–8 mm, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces strigulose.

1.5–7(–8) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets mostly crowded, blades folded or involute, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(1 or)2–4-flowered;

axis (1–)1.5–4 cm in fruit.

loosely (1–)3–6-flowered, (0–)1–10(–15) mm (in fruit);

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect, very slender, 1.5–8 cm.

procumbent (in fruit), 1–3(–6.5) cm.

0.5–1.5 mm, (1–2 mm in fruit).

5–6.2 mm;

calyx 2–3.5 mm, strigose, hairs white or black, tube 1.2–2.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 0.7–1.2 mm.

10.7–12.5 mm;

calyx 5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, keel apex maculate, banner veined and suffused with lilac;

keel 9–10 mm.

spreading or pendulous, red-mottled, ellipsoid, subinflated, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, 8–14 × 4–6 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose or glabrous;

gynophore 0.5–0.8 mm.

slightly incurved, 6.5–11.5 × 3–3.5 mm, thinly submembranous, strigulose.

16–18.

6–9.