Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate or weakly ascending, silvery-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.

(2–)3–13(–16) cm;

stipules distinct, (1.5–)2–6.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (9 or)11–21, blades oblong, oblong-ovate or -obovate, or broadly to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–25 mm, apex usually acute or obtuse and apiculate, rarely retuse-emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, usually densely to sparsely strigulose adaxially, rarely glabrous or glabrescent.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(10–)20–40-flowered, flowers widely ascending or spreading;

axis (3.5–)4–21 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending or incurved, 4–13 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–3(–3.4) 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.

7–10.3 mm;

calyx campanulate or ovoid-campanulate, 3.6–6.6 mm, strigulose, tube (2.2–)2.7–3.8 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, (0.9–)1–2.8 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple, or ochroleucous with purple tips or veins;

banner recurved through 90°, 7–10.3 mm;

keel 6.2–8.8 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular 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.

ascending, spreading, or declined, pale green or purple-specked or -suffused becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoid or ovoid-acuminate, moderately to strongly bladdery-inflated, ± dorsiventrally or laterally compressed, 9–23 × (4–)5–15(–17) mm, beak prominent, papery, sparsely to densely strigulose.

27–40(–46).

(7–)12–31.