Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending to erect or spreading-decumbent, diffuse, radiating, 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.

2–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 5–15, blades oblong to ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 2–14 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, mucronate, or acute, surfaces villosulous.

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

axis (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

3–12-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.4–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1.5–)3.5–11 cm.

incurved, 1–4 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.5–2 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.

8.8–12.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.8–6.3 mm, villosulous, tube 2.8–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–2.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple or ochroleucous;

banner incurved through 90–110°;

keel 7.3–8.7 mm, apex bluntly triangular or 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.

deciduous from receptacle, spreading-declined, green or reddish becoming stramineous, incurved through 0.25–0.5 spiral, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, inflated, 12–20 × 4–8(–9) mm, thin becoming papery, shaggy-pilose, hairs lustrous, 1–2 mm.

(33–)35–55(or 56).

9–18.

= 22.