Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent or ascending, hirsute or hirsutulous.

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–)4–14 cm;

stipules 5–10 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery-membranous;

leaflets (9–)15–27, blades broadly ovate, obcordate, obovate to broadly oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–15 mm, apex usually obtuse, rarely acute, surfaces hirsutulous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–9-flowered, flowers loosely ascending;

axis 1–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

2.5–4 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.

15–22 mm;

calyx usually broadly campanulate, sometimes subcylindric, 9–12 mm, hirsute, tube 5–7 mm, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

corolla white, veins and keel tip pink;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 12.4–16.2 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 or spreading, brownish, incurved through 0.2–0.5(–1) spiral, lunately lanceoloid, strongly obcompressed, (20–)25–30 × 6–8 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, densely hirsutulous.

27–40(–46).

26–30.