Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

single or few, prostrate-ascending, 3.5–14 cm underground, strigulose.

1.5–14(–15) cm;

stipules (2.5–)4–11 mm, submembranous becoming scarious or papery;

leaflets 1–13(or 15), blades obovate to elliptic, oblanceolate, or orbiculate, 3–20 mm, apex acute to obtuse or retuse, surfaces villous-tomentulose.

3–14 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2–6 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–15(–19), blades obovate, 4–15 mm, apex round to emarginate, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–20-flowered;

axis 1.2–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect, 0.5–9.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1–3 mm.

14–32 mm;

calyx cylindric or campanulate, 7–20 mm, villous, tube 5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 1–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 12–26 mm.

13.5–22 mm;

calyx 4.8–7.5 mm, black-strigose, tube 4.2–6 mm, lobes broadly triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, or pink-purple with white wing tips;

banner recurved through 30°;

keel 9–12.2 mm.

ascending (humistrate), brown-stramineous, incurved, obliquely ovoid, obcompressed, (13–)18–28(–36) × 7–13(–17) mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, sparsely hirtellous to densely villous-tomentose, usually concealing surfaces.

ascending-erect, green and purple-dotted becoming purple-stramineous, straight or slightly decurved, ovoid to subglobose, terete, inflated, 12–20 × 8–11 mm, thin becoming papery, glabrous or glabrate;

stipe 9–19 mm.

27–40(–46).