Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally.

prostrate or decumbent.

3–8(–11) cm;

leaflets 11–15(–19), blades obovate or oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex retuse, surfaces glabrate to densely strigulose, hairs appressed or subappressed.

1–5 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–19, mostly conduplicate, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, oval, or obovate, 1.5–7 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

(11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit;

axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely (2 or)3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit.

1–4(–7) cm.

0.6–2.5 cm.

8.8–11 mm;

calyx 4–6.5 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4(–2) mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes wings and keel with lavender tips.

9.3–11.3 mm;

calyx 4.1–5.3 mm, tube 3.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.6–1.2 mm;

corolla whitish or suffused purplish.

faintly mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, (8–)12–21 × (6–)7–12 mm, thinly papery, translucent, glabrous or strigulose;

beak 3–7 mm, unilocular.

in loose or compact, humistrate clusters, pale green or stramineous, purple-mottled, becoming brownish, globose or very broadly and plumply ovoid or obovoid, bladdery-inflated, 6–13 × 6–10 mm, papery, subtranslucent, sparsely and loosely strigulose;

beak linear- or subulate-tubular, cusplike, bilocular.

15–21(–25).

(7–)10–18.