Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent to ascending, glabrous or sparsely 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.

4–9.5 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–15(or 17), blades ovate, ovate-oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 5–20 mm, apex retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–20-flowered;

axis 1–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 3–9 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.2 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.

7–9 mm;

calyx 3.2–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.7 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes faintly tinged lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 4.8–5.5 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 or brown, lunate, linear-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 10–17 × 2.5–3.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 1.3–2 mm wide;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

8–10.