Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

usually reduced to sessile crowns, rarely to 2.5 cm, internodes concealed by stipules, sometimes with thatch of persistent leaf rachises, hairs silvery.

(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.

(4–)6–21 cm;

stipules (3–)5–12 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–17(or 19), blades usually obovate, rhombic-obovate, elliptic-ovate, rarely flabellate, 5–20(–25) mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces strigose.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

loosely (5–)7–16-flowered;

axis 1–4(–6) cm in fruit;

bracts 4–10 mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

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

2–15 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

1.6–3.4 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.

(16–)19–22 mm;

calyx cylindric or deeply campanulate, (9.4–)11–14.7 mm, villous (not silvery), tube (6.5–)7.6–9.8 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 2.9–5.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (13–)15.5–17.2 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 (humistrate), brown or stramineous then blackish, ± straight in proximal 1/2, obliquely ovoid or ellipsoid, obcompressed, (20–)25–45 × (8–)9–18 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming woody or very stiffly leathery, densely strigulose.

33–54(–66).