Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate, when developed, to 8 cm, internodes often obscured by stipules, 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.

1–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 1.5–7 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets (3–)7–17, blades elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

3–16(–18)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 0.4–13 cm in fruit;

bracts (1–)1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect and ascending, 0.5–13 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.4(–2) 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.

6–9 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–6 mm, strigose-pilose, tube 2.5–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-purple or bicolored;

keel 5.9–12.5 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.

declined to deflexed, green, usually red-mottled or -spotted, becoming stramineous, ± straight or lunately to very strongly incurved through 0.75(–1) spiral, obliquely ovoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 6–19 × 3–6 mm, unilocular, papery-membranous, hirsute, hairs lustrous;

sessile, gynophore 0–1.2 mm.

27–40(–46).

16–28.