Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate to ascending, internodes well developed, sparsely strigulose-villosulous.

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.

4–6 cm;

stipules connate and scarious, 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–23, blades oblong-oblanceolate, -elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 1–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigulose-villosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–12-flowered;

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, 0.5–2.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–1.3 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.

4.5–5.5 mm;

calyx 2.8–4 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.9 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.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 6–10.5 × 2–3 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, finely strigulose;

septum 1 mm wide;

stipe 0.5–2.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

6–11.