Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

erect to sprawling, to 7 cm, internodes often shorter than stipules, villous-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.

(1.5–)2.5–9 cm;

stipules 2–10 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, often crowded, blades elliptic to broadly obovate, 3–13 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or shortly acuminate, surfaces villous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)2–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, decumbent in fruit, (3–)5–13 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–2.2 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.

16–18.5 mm;

calyx purplish, usually cylindric, sometimes cylindro-campanulate, 8.2–10.7 mm, villosulous, tube 6.6–8.9 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-triangular, 1.5–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or pallid;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 14.3–16.8 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.

ascending (humistrate), gently incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-oblong, obcompressed to 3-sided compressed, (13–)15–25 × 4.5–9 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, hairs to 1 mm; inflexed, especially proximal 1/2, as a narrow, complete septum.

27–40(–46).

18–24.