Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

decumbent, tips ascending, 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.

(1.5–)3–7 cm;

stipules connate at proximal nodes, connate to 1/2 their length at distal nodes, 1.5–4 mm, membranous becoming papery;

leaflets 9–19, blades oblong-obovate, elliptic, or linear-oblong, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces pubescent abaxially, glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)7–25-flowered;

axis 1.5–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending, 3–10 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.5–1.5 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.

5.2–7.7 mm;

calyx marcescent, 3.5–4.7 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 2–3.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with dull lilac;

banner recurved through 65–90°;

keel 5–6.5 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.

persisting and dehiscent on plant, green, sometimes also purple, becoming stramineous, strongly curved downward, linear-oblong or linear-ellipsoid, bluntly 3-sided compressed, 13–25 × 2.3–3 mm, incompletely bilocular, papery, finely strigulose;

valves inflexed as nearly complete septum 0.7–1.5 mm wide;

stipe 0–0.7 mm.

27–40(–46).

12–18.

= 22.