Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate and radiating, to 15(–20) cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, strigose or strigulose.

erect or ascending, strigulose.

(2–)4–14 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes (vars. humistratus and missouriensis), (2–)3–9 mm, firm or submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets (5–)11–17(–21), blades elliptic to obovate, 3.5–13(–17) mm, apex acute, apiculate, or obtuse, surfaces strigose to strigulose.

(3.5–)5–12 cm;

stipules 0.8–2 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades obovate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-elliptic, 2.5–7 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

(3–)4–15-flowered, flowers ascending to spreading;

axis (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–5-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 2–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.1–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (1.5–)3.5–11 cm.

(3.5–)5–11 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

2.4–6 mm.

9.5–22(–24) mm;

calyx purple-tinged, cylindric or deeply campanulate, 5–13(–14.3) mm, strigulose, tube 4.1–10 mm, lobes subulate, (0.7–)1.4–4.5(–5.3) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, purple, lavender, or violet-red, rarely white;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 8.9–17.3(–18.5) mm.

12–14 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.3–7.5 mm, strigulose, tube 4–4.5 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla reddish purple, drying bluish;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 9.4–14.4 mm, apex sharply deltate.

usually persistent, ascending or descending, brownish becoming black, straight or slightly incurved, subsymmetrically or obliquely oblong, oblong-ellipsoid, or ellipsoid, subterete, or dorsiventrally or ± laterally compressed, (11–)14–28(–30) × (4–)5–9(–10) mm, unilocular or subunilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigulose, strigose, or glabrous.

persistent and dehiscent by gaping beak, ascending, green, or suffused or speckled with purple, becoming brownish stramineous, lunate, linear-oblanceoloid, 3-sided compressed, 15–21 × 2.8–3.8 mm, ± bilocular, fleshy becoming thinly or stiffly leathery, sparsely strigulose;

septum 1–1.3 mm wide;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

(33–)35–55(or 56).

16–19.

= 22.