Flora of North America species comparison

usually erect or ascending, sometimes decumbent, rarely prostrate, usually sparsely strigulose, sometimes pilosulous.

prostrate or weakly ascending, diffuse, modestly flexuous, 1–3 cm underground, strigulose to subvillosulous.

2–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes, usually black or blackish when dry, 1.5–7 mm;

leaflets 11–21, blades narrowly oblong to elliptic, linear, oblanceolate, or obovate, 3–24 mm, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(1.5–)2–4 cm;

stipules connate and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, distinct and membranous at distal nodes, 1.5–3 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades oblong-ovate or oblong-cuneate, 3–9 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces densely strigulose to subvillosulous abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

(1–)3–23-flowered, often paired in leaf axils, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–11 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)7–14-flowered, flowers initially spreading, later declined;

axis (1–)2–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

narrowly ascending or incurved, 0.2–4 cm.

divaricate and ascending, (0.8–)1.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

0.7–3.2 mm.

0.5 mm.

6–9(–11) mm;

calyx 2.6–5.2 mm, strigose, tube 2–2.7 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.5 mm;

corolla usually white to ochroleucous, sometimes pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.7(–6.5) mm.

5.6–5.8 mm;

calyx campanulate or obconic-campanulate, 2.2–2.6 mm, strigulose, hairs white and fuscous, sometimes also black, tube 1.4–1.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–0.7 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.5–3.7 mm.

pendulous, green, often brown- or red-mottled, becoming brown or black, straight or curved, ellipsoid to oblong, laterally flattened, 7–16 × 2.5–4.5 mm, papery, usually glabrous, sometimes strigose;

stipe 0.6–6 mm.

pendulous, green with purple speckles becoming stramineous, slightly decurved, ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, dehiscent while attached, 6–9.5 × (2.5–)3–3.3 mm, papery, white-villosulous;

valves inflexed, if at all, as hyaline septum 0–0.1 mm wide;

stipe 0.4 mm.

3–9.

4–6.

= 16, 24.