Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

single or to 3, prostrate to ascending or erect, 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–)2–10.5(–12) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–4 mm, thinly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades linear, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, or linear-elliptic, rarely obcordate, 3–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.6–2.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.6–1.5 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.

5–7.6 mm;

calyx campanulate, (2–)2.7–3.8(–4) mm, strigose, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 mm;

corolla whitish, suffused with purple, or pink-purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.8–4.8 mm, apex obtuse, deltate.

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 to declined, green or suffused purple, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 15–24 × 6–12 mm, unilocular or semibilocular, thin becoming papery, strigose, hairs straight, appressed;

seed-bearing flange 0.2–1.5 mm wide.

27–40(–46).

7–18.