Flora of North America species comparison

usually few or several, sometimes single, decumbent to ascending, when developed, with several, short internodes, to 2 cm, villous-tomentose.

prostrate to weakly ascending, often flexuous, (1–)2–10(–15) cm underground, strigulose-villosulous or hirsutulous, hairs stiff, straight, spreading or subretrorse.

(2–)5–32 cm;

stipules (3–)4–20 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–35, blades elliptic, suborbiculate, ovate, obovate, rhombic-elliptic, rhombic-obovate, rhombic-ovate, oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, or oval, (2–)3–30(–45) mm, apex acute, obtuse, retuse, or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose, sometimes densely so.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, obscurely connate or distinct and herbaceous or foliaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–6.5 mm;

leaflets 9–23, blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 2–16 mm, apex obtuse, emarginate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous abaxially, villosulous or glabrate adaxially.

(5–)7–45-flowered;

axis (0.5–)1–18 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–10(–12) mm;

bracteoles 0(–2).

5–37-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

ascending, (1.5–)2.5–24 cm.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 1.5–10 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

11.8–25 mm;

calyx cylindric to deeply campanulate, 6.8–15.5 mm, villous-tomentose, tube (4.5–)5–13 mm, lobes lanceolate to subulate or subulate-setaceous, 1.6–5.5(–6.8) mm;

corolla pink-purple, pale purple, pinkish, cream, or yellowish suffused with dull lavender, or tipped and suffused or margined with dull purple;

keel 9–20.5 mm.

6–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.4–6.3 mm, villosulous, tube 2.3–3.6 mm, lobes subulate, 0.9–2.9 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, fading yellowish, and usually suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (5.7–)6–7.7 mm, apex broadly deltate.

spreading or ascending, ± straight to incurved through 0.25+ spiral, oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, or ovoid-ellipsoid, sometimes decidedly inflated (not bladdery), terete when narrow, obcompressed when broad, (6–)9–24 × (3–)4–13 mm, fleshy, stiffly papery, leathery, or subligneous, glabrous, puberulent, hispidulous, villosulous, villous-hirsute, villous-tomentulose, or villous-tomentose;

beaks sometimes unilocular.

spreading to declined, green or purplish, brightly red-mottled, straight, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, ellipsoid, or cylindroid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated or turgid, subterete to dorsiventrally compressed, 12–27 × 3.5–13 mm, papery or papery-membranous, sparsely villosulous;

stipe 0.3–1 mm.

12–38[–41].

10–20.

= 22.