Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

sprawling-decumbent, 1–20 cm underground, sparsely to densely pilose.

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.

2.5–11.5(–15) cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 1.5–7 mm, scarious at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes; short-petiolate or subsessile;

leaflets (11–)15–29, blades usually broadly to narrowly elliptic or oblong, rarely oblong-obovate, (2–)4–13(–17) mm, apex usually obtuse or acute, rarely truncate-emarginate, surfaces sparsely pilose or glabrescent, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3–)6–15-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis 0.7–2.5(–3.2) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)3–7.5 mm;

bracteoles (0 or)2.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending, (1–)2–8(–9) cm.

1.4–5 mm.

1.4–2.8 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.

(14.3–)16.5–20(–21.5) mm;

calyx purplish, deeply campanulate, 7.8–12.2(–13.7) mm, pilose or shortly pilosulous, tube 5.4–7.8 mm, lobes subulate or lanceolate-subulate, (2–)2.6–4.7(–6.1) mm;

corolla pink-purple or lilac-purple, sometimes pale, wings and keel maculate;

keel (11.5–)12–15.5(–16) 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.

long persisting then finally disjointing from receptacle, green, often purple-mottled, straight, obliquely ovoid-oblong or subglobose, ± obcompressed, 10–17(–20) × 10–13 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery, mesocarp 1.5–2 mm thick, not separated into 2 layers, strigulose or pilosulous.

27–40(–46).

(28–)32–48(–52).