Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

mostly reduced to crowns, prostrate-ascending or erect, 0–2 cm, (0–)1–3 cm underground, often with thatch of marcescent leaf bases, strigulose.

(2–)4–17 cm;

stipules 4–13(–16) mm, papery-scarious, pallid;

leaflet blades oblong to elliptic, (4–)7–27(–33) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sparsely to moderately strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

1–7 cm;

stipules usually connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 5–15, blades elliptic to obovate, oblong, or oval, 2–11 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces silvery-strigose.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–0.6 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)4–14(–16.5) cm.

ascending, 1.5–6.5 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.7–1.9 mm.

11.5–19.5 mm;

calyx [4.8–]5.6–10.5 mm, strigulose, tube [3–]4–7 × 2–3.2 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-setaceous, 0.4–4.2 mm;

corolla keel 8–15 mm.

7–9.5 mm;

calyx 3–5.4 mm, strigose, tube 2–3.4 mm, lobes subulate, 0.2–2.1 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

keel 7.8–8.6 mm.

stramineous, ovoid-, oblong-, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, [5.5–]6–12 × 2.3–4 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose;

stipe 0–1.8 mm.

ascending, purple-mottled, straight, ovoid to subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 15–33 × 10–22 mm, bilocular or semibilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

26–34.