Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent or weakly ascending, strigulose-villosulous.

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.

4–9 cm;

stipules distinct, 2–4 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (11–)15–19(–23), blades oval, elliptic-obovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)5–18 mm, apex obtuse or shallowly retuse, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrescent adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely 5–9-flowered, flowers ascending becoming declined;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, (3–)4–6.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

2–4 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.

9.5–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 6.7–7.8 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 3.7–3.9 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 2.8–4 mm;

corolla greenish white, often tinged or veined dull lilac;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel 7.8–8.9 mm, apex triangular, subacute, often obscurely beaklike.

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.

loosely spreading, declined, or ascending, pale green and purple-cheeked becoming stramineous, straight, subsymmetrically ellipsoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat obcompressed, 25–40 × 13–17 mm, thin, translucent, lustrous, glabrous or strigulose.

27–40(–46).

(27–)30–39.