Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

indistinctly flexuous (if at all), spreading to prostrate, sparsely 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.

(3–)5–12 cm;

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

leaflets 5–11, blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, -elliptic, or filiform, (2–)5–25 mm, apex acute to subacute, surfaces strigulose;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)5–15(–22)-flowered, 1 per leaf axil;

axis (1.5–)2–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

divaricate and incurved, (2–)4–20 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.

9.4–12.2 mm;

calyx subcylindric to campanulate, 3.5–5 mm, strigulose, hairs black and white, tube 3–4 × 2.3–2.8(–3.1) mm, lobes triangular, 0.6–1 mm;

corolla pinkish red, with darker red veins, keel and wings buff-yellow, banner white-tipped;

banner recurved through 35–45°;

keel incurved through 40–85°, blades longer than claws, 8.2–10 mm, apex obtuse and beaklike.

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.

brown or stramineous, sometimes initially mottled, straight or slightly curved, linear-oblong or linear-lanceoloid, strongly laterally compressed, 15–35 × 3–4 mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose or if glabrous then mottled;

stipe (4–)6–14 mm.

27–40(–46).

13–17.