Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

very slender, prostrate-spreading, 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.

(1–)2–11.5(–15) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and herbaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–5 mm;

leaflet blades linear-filiform to narrowly oblong, involute or conduplicate, 5–27 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

of subradical inflorescences 1(or 2)-flowered, others 2–5(–7)-flowered;

axis filiform, 0.5–6(–8) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

pendulous or ascending, humistrate in fruit, 2.5–14(–17) cm (early subradical, shorter than leaves, later much surpassing leaves).

1.4–5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

4–6(–7) mm;

calyx 2.7–4 mm, black-strigose, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.9–2 mm;

corolla keel 3.5–4.5 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.

greenish or purple-dotted becoming brownish stramineous, 10–18 × 3.5–5 mm, thin becoming papery, strigose;

septum 1.2–2 mm wide;

stipe 0–1 mm.

27–40(–46).

= 22.