Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

erect, incurved-ascending, or decumbent, sparsely strigulose or glabrate.

(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.

(1.5–)2–5(–6) cm;

stipules (1–)1.2–4 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (5 or)7–11(or 13), blades broadly obovate, obovate-cuneate to oblanceolate, or suborbiculate-obcordate, 2–12 mm, apex emarginate or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–10-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.1–0.4(–0.5) cm in fruit, not elongating;

bracts 0.5–0.8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

erect, (1.5–)2–7 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.3–1.3 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.

7.2–12 mm;

calyx 2.5–5 mm, strigulose, tube (1.8–)2.7–3.4 mm, lobes subulate, 0.6–1.7 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips pale or banner and keel tips maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 3.8–8.1 mm, apex broadly rounded or deltate, often obscurely beaklike.

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, green or purple-tinged becoming brownish stramineous, gently incurved or straight, very narrowly linear, terete to obscurely 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, (15–)18–50(–57) × 1.7–2.7(–3.1) mm, thinly fleshy becoming papery, base cuneate or cuneate-tapered, then sometimes pseudostipitate, strigulose; bearing seeds near middle.

8–20.