Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to crowns.

prostrate, strigose-strigulose or villous to pilosulous.

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.

1–4(–6) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, sometimes distinct, 0.8–3(–5) mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate, 1.5–9 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces sparsely villosulous abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

1–6-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1.4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.6–4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

densely or loosely 2–13(–15)-flowered, flowers ascending then declined;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.2–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, 0.5–7 cm.

0.3–2.5 cm.

1.2–4 mm.

0.4–1.3 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.

4.4–10(–12) mm;

calyx obconic-campanulate, (2.2–)2.6–4.7(–5) mm, sparsely villosulous, tube 1.1–2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2.7 mm;

corolla whitish and banner veins faintly lilac, or rose-purple with pale basal eye;

banner recurved through 60–100°;

keel 3.5–3.7 mm, apex broadly deltate.

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.

spreading, yellowish, straight, ovoid-lenticular, obscurely 3-sided, 3.3–4.5 × 1.5–4.2 mm, unilocular, thinly papery, minutely strigulose to silky-villous.

33–53.

2 or 3(or 4).