Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

prostrate to ascending and radiating, (0.5–)2–18(–24) cm underground, frequently exceeding aerial stem length, strigulose.

1.5–13 cm;

stipules 3.5–10 mm, firmly papery;

leaflets (1 or)3 or 5, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 5–35(–47) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

1–5.5 cm;

stipules distinct throughout or shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 2–5 mm, subherbaceous;

leaflets closely spaced on rachis, blades obovate to elliptic or oblong, 1–12 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces gray-strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(1 or)2–10-flowered;

axis 0.3–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

1.2–3 mm.

(18.5–)20–28 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–16 mm, strigose-pilose, tube 9.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (18–)19–22.7 mm.

9–17 mm;

calyx 4.8–10.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3.5–7.6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–3 mm;

corolla white or ochroleucous, or banner and wings tinged lavender, keel tip pink or purplish;

keel 7.4–13.2 mm.

ascending to spreading (humistrate), green or purplish, incurved, obliquely ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 15–36 × 8–17 mm, unilocular, thickly succulent becoming alveolate-spongy, spongy-thickened cellular tissue 1.5–2 mm thick, hirsutulous to villous-hirsute, hairs spreading, 0.6–2 mm.

pale green and red-cheeked, 15–38 × 8–23 mm, thin becoming papery, strigose;

gynophore 1–4.5 mm.

33–53.