Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate, 0–15 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely white-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.

2–11 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 9–21, blades obovate, suborbiculate, or lanceolate, 2–13 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or arcuate-ascending, spreading or procumbent in fruit, 2–8(–12) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1–1.5 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.

16–26 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric, 6.8–13.3 mm, villous-pilose, tube 5.5–10.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3.2 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (12–)13–20.7 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-spreading, stramineous, incurved, oblong-ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–20 × 5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, hirsute, longest hairs 2–2.5 mm, not obscuring surface.

27–40(–46).

24–34.