Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate to ascending, 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.

1.5–4.5 cm;

stipules 1.5–4.5 mm, papery-membranous at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades obovate, oblanceolate, or oblong-obovate, (2–)3–10 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

6–15-flowered;

axis (1.5–)2.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

divaricate and spreading-incurved, 2.5–7 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–2.5 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.

8.6–10.8 mm;

calyx 3.7–5.8 mm, strigose, tube 2.4–3.7 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–2.4 mm;

corolla keel 8.2–9.6 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.

purplish, gently to strongly incurved to 0.5 spiral, 12–16 × 3.6–5 mm, incompletely bilocular, wider than high in cross section, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, strigose, hairs ± 1 mm;

septum 0.6–1 mm wide;

stipe 2–5 mm.

27–40(–46).