Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, stiffly ascending, or basally decumbent, 0–4 cm underground, 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.

(2.5–)3.5–10(–12) cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, 2.5–6 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets (13 or)15–25, blades orbiculate, ovate, obovate, lanceolate-elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, (2–)3–12 mm, apex rounded to emarginate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

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

axis (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

densely becoming loosely (15–)20–45-flowered;

axis 2.5–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (1.5–)3.5–11 cm.

erect to ascending, 3.5–6(–10) cm, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

1–3.5 mm.

1–1.3 mm, 1.2–1.5 mm in fruit.

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.

9.6–10 mm;

calyx marcescent, 4.5–5.1 mm, strigulose, hairs black, sometimes also white, tube 3.3–4 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 0.8–1.3 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, fading yellowish, keel immaculate;

banner gently incurved through 45–50°;

keel 6.4–7.6 mm.

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.

persisting and dehiscent on plant, slightly incurved, obliquely ellipsoid, laterally compressed and bluntly 3-sided, 10–15 × 4.5 mm, incompletely bilocular, thinly papery, strigulose;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 0.4 mm wide;

stipe 5–6 mm.

(33–)35–55(or 56).

6–10.

= 22.

= 22.