Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect-ascending, 1–7 cm, internodes mostly concealed by imbricate stipules and marcescent leaf remains, 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–)5–17 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–19(–23), blades obovate, ovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, 3–21 mm, apex usually obtuse or retuse and mucronate, rarely abruptly cuspidate-acuminate, surfaces strigose or glabrous 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.

1–7(or 8)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, (1.5–)3.5–11 cm.

0.5–6(–7) cm, together with racemes shorter than leaves.

1–3.5 mm.

3.5–8 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.

15–23(–26) mm;

calyx cylindric, (7–)8.5–13.5(–16) mm, strigulose, tube (5.2–)6–10 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate-subulate, 1.8–4.5(–6) mm;

corolla pink-purple or white with pale pink veins;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 11.5–17.5 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.

appearing radical, forming ring on ground beneath tufted foliage, ascending, greenish, brightly mottled reddish purple, becoming brownish stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, symmetrically or somewhat obliquely ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, 35–70(–90) × 15–45 mm, papery, surface lustrous, sparsely strigulose;

gynophore 2–4 mm.

(33–)35–55(or 56).

38–54.

= 22.