Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

single or few, decumbent with ascending tips or trailing and diffuse, densely white-strigulose-pilose.

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.

(2–)3–9(–10) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–5(–6.5) mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces pubescent.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3 or)4–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.2–1 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.

(3.3–)3.5–6.5 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 3.3–4.3 mm, densely silvery-pilose, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly tinged with pink-lilac or cream-pink;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and 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.

ascending, incurved, semi-ellipsoid or lunately ellipsoid, slightly inflated, scarcely bladdery, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, thin becoming papery, opaque, canescently strigulose-pilosulous.

27–40(–46).

(3 or)4–6(or 7).