Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate to decumbent, radiating, villosulous or villous.

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.

2.5–5 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, membranous;

leaflets (7–)11–19, blades obovate-cuneate, 3–10 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)12–25-flowered, flowers spreading to declined;

axis 2.5–8(–11) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

ascending or incurved, 2–3.5 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.8 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.

9–10 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.8–4.7 mm, loosely villous, tube 2.8–3.8 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 1–1.7 mm;

corolla reddish lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 8.5–9.3 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.

disjointing from receptacle when mature, deflexed, green or faintly mottled, incurved through 0.5+ spiral, obliquely ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, (16–)20–30 × (4.5–)5–8 mm, semibilocular, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery, villosulous;

sessile.

27–40(–46).

14–19.