Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

obsolete, ascending, or prostrate, radiating from root-crown, to 3 cm, internodes mostly obscured by leaf bases, silky-strigose to 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.

(1.5–)2.5–10 cm;

stipules 3–7 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–13, blades obovate-cuneate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3–12 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces strigulose.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–5.5 mm;

bracteoles 0(–2), exceptionally conspicuous.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, 0.5–3(–5) cm.

1.4–5 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.

(14.5–)15–18.5 mm;

calyx cylindric or vase-shaped, 6–10.5 mm, strigulose, hairs black or white, tube 6.5–8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla white, whitish, or ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8.3–14.3 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.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), green or purplish becoming brownish or stramineous, scarcely to moderately incurved, obliquely ovoid, lanceolate-ovoid, or lunately ellipsoid, obcompressed becoming laterally compressed distally, 9–20(–22) × 4–8 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, leathery, walls much less than 1 mm thick, densely strigulose.

27–40(–46).

18–33.