Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

decumbent to ascending, diffuse, clumps often as tall as wide, strigulose-villosulous.

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.

3–8.5 cm;

stipules mostly distinct, some shortly connate-sheathing, 2–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 11–17, blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 3–20 mm, apex truncate to retuse, mucronate, or acute, surfaces strigulose.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

3–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

incurved, 1–4 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

0.8–3.6 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.

6.3–8.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.8–6.6 mm, villous, tube 2.3–3 mm, lobes subulate, 2.2–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, fading yellowish;

banner recurved through 60–90°;

keel 5.8–6.8 mm, apex bluntly or sharply triangular, often beaklike.

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.

deciduous from receptacle, declined, green, often brightly purple- or red-mottled, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid, inflated, not strongly bladdery, gently obcompressed, 13–21 × 7–11 mm, firmly papery, villosulous, hairs spreading, incurved, to 0.7 mm.

33–53.

20–28.