Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

prostrate, mostly obconic crowns with thatch of stipules, or developed, to 4(–7) cm, internodes to 1 cm, villous-hirsute (white-felted), sometimes also tomentose.

(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.

(3–)4–15 cm;

stipules mostly obscuring internodes, 3–8 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, blades obovate-cuneate, broadly elliptic, or suborbiculate, 4–14 mm, thick, apex usually obtuse or subtruncate, rarely subacute, surfaces villous-hirsute.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–16-flowered, flowers loosely spreading-ascending;

axis (1–)2–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

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

ascending, (2.5–)5–13 cm.

to 0.8 mm.

0.8–3.1 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.

12–17.7 mm;

calyx short-cylindric to deeply campanulate, (5.5–)5.8–9.7 mm, villous-hirsute or villosulous, tube 5–7.3 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 0.8–2.7 mm;

corolla white, with dull lavender tinge, keel and wings tipped with dark purple;

banner recurved through 40°.

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 or incurved-ascending (humistrate), brownish stramineous, not mottled, incurved through 0.5+ spiral, obliquely lanceoloid-acuminate, ± dorsiventrally compressed, laterally compressed at both ends, obcompressed at middle, (15–)20–55 × 6–16 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, strigulose.

26–49.