Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate or ascending, 0–6 cm, internodes mostly concealed by stipules, densely to sparsely strigose.

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.

1.2–8.5 cm;

stipules 2–7 mm, membranous;

leaflets 7–17, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 3–11 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate or acuminate to acute, surfaces strigose, hairs subappressed and silvery-silky.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

2–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–3.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 1–8 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–3 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.

17–24 mm;

calyx cylindric, 10–13.2 mm, pilosulous, tube 7.3–9.4 mm, lobes subulate, 2–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, often pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 17–19 mm, 2 mm shorter than banner.

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.

spreading-ascending (humistrate), sessile or subsessile, gently or abruptly incurved, ovoid-acuminate, obcompressed, 10–23 × 7–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, densely shaggy-hirsute, hairs concealing surface, longest hairs 2–3.5 mm.

27–40(–46).

27–36.