Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate or weakly ascending, diffuse, modestly flexuous, 1–3 cm underground, strigulose to subvillosulous.

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–)2–4 cm;

stipules connate and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, distinct and membranous at distal nodes, 1.5–3 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades oblong-ovate or oblong-cuneate, 3–9 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces densely strigulose to subvillosulous abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)7–14-flowered, flowers initially spreading, later declined;

axis (1–)2–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

divaricate and ascending, (0.8–)1.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5 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.

5.6–5.8 mm;

calyx campanulate or obconic-campanulate, 2.2–2.6 mm, strigulose, hairs white and fuscous, sometimes also black, tube 1.4–1.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–0.7 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.5–3.7 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, green with purple speckles becoming stramineous, slightly decurved, ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, dehiscent while attached, 6–9.5 × (2.5–)3–3.3 mm, papery, white-villosulous;

valves inflexed, if at all, as hyaline septum 0–0.1 mm wide;

stipe 0.4 mm.

27–40(–46).

4–6.