Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to erect, (0.5–)2–20+ cm underground, strigose, glabrate, or glabrous.

prostrate, usually villous-tomentose, sometimes glabrous.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules 2–4 mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades lanceolate to elliptic or oblong, 2–9 mm, margins involute and long-ciliate, apex obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(1–)1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–5 mm, submembranous becoming scarious;

leaflets (7 or)9–15, blades flat or loosely folded, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–11 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, strigulose, glabrous, or glabrate adaxially.

2–10-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis 0.2–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(2–)5–13-flowered, subcapitate, flowers loosely ascending;

axis 0.2–1 cm per fruit;

bracts 0.8–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect and ascending, reclined in fruit, 2–5 cm.

ascending, 0.6–1.7 cm, sometimes 2 or 3 per node.

0.8–1.5 mm.

0.7–2.5 mm.

6.2–7.5 mm;

calyx 2.8–3.6 mm, strigose, tube 2–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or pink-purple, then wing tips same color;

keel 3.9–4.8 mm.

4.8–6.1 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–3.9 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–1.7 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes tinged lilac, banner veins purple;

banner recurved through 45–85°;

keel 3.4–4 mm, apex triangular, obtuse, somewhat beaklike.

pale green, red-mottled, becoming stramineous, ovoid, 9–18(–22) × 7–13(–15) mm, papery-membranous, opaque, strigose.

spreading or somewhat declined, stramineous or brownish, straight or somewhat incurved, ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, grooved dorsally, lateral faces flat, 4–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

10–12.

4–8.