Flora of North America species comparison

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

spreading to ascending, glabrous or glabrate.

(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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 3.5–9.5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (11–)15–23, blades broadly oblong, ovate, or obovate to suborbiculate, (4–)6–16(–20) mm, apex retuse or abruptly short-acuminate, surfaces glabrous, sparsely ciliate, abaxially with few hairs on midrib.

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

axis (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

10–25-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2–5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.7–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1.5–)3.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 5–12 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.6–1.2 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx 5.2–7 mm, sparsely strigulose, tube 3.1–4 mm, lobes subulate, 2.1–3.2 mm;

corolla greenish white, immaculate, often drying cream;

banner recurved through 40–60°;

keel 7.7–10 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.

spreading or declined, stramineous or blackish, incurved to 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately linear-lanceoloid or linear, 3-sided, 14–24 × 2.6–3.6 mm, firmly papery, glabrous;

septum 1.5–2.3 mm wide;

stipe 0.8–1.9 mm.

(33–)35–55(or 56).

10–15.

= 22.