Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

decumbent to ascending, 0.5–5.5 cm underground, glabrous underground.

(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.

2–8 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate distally, (2–)3–7.5 mm, scarious proximally, herbaceous distally;

leaflets (7–)11–17, blades obovate-cuneate or broadly oblanceolate, (3–)4–14 mm, apex retuse or truncate and apiculate, surfaces strigulose-villosulous.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(10–)15–30-flowered, flowers spreading to ascending;

axis (2–)4–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

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

incurved-ascending, (3–)5–12.5 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.8–1.5 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.

(12.7–)14.5–17.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 8.6–13 mm, villous, tube (4.7–)5.1–6.5 mm, lobes linear-caudate, margins plumose-ciliate, 3.5–5.7(–6.5) mm;

corolla pinkish white or pale lilac with whitish wing tips;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 10–12.2 mm, apex round.

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.

spreading-ascending to declined, stramineous, gently incurved, narrowly oblong, 3-sided compressed, 15–20 × 3.5–5.5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, villous.

(14–)16–20.