Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate, 0–15(–25) cm, internodes to 2(–2.5) cm, strigulose, pilosulous, or villosulous.

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.

4–24 cm;

stipules sometimes obscurely connate at proximal nodes, 2–15 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 11–27(–31), blades oblanceolate, obovate, obovate-cuneate, rhombic, rhombic-ovate, or rhombic-elliptic, rarely suborbiculate, 2–27 mm, apex usually obtuse or acute, rarely emarginate, surfaces usually pubescent, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

loosely (9 or)10–25(–35)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (1.5–)2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–11 mm;

bracteoles usually 0(–2).

0.5–11 cm.

incurved-ascending or erect, 4–40 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.6–3.4 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.

11.8–24 mm;

calyx cylindric to deeply campanulate, (5–)6.4–14 mm, loosely strigulose, pilosulous, or villous, tube (3.5–)4.5–10.2 mm, lobes subulate or triangular-subulate, 1.2–3.8 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple to dull lilac, rarely white or nearly so;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 10.2–20.1 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.

ascending, green or purplish becoming stramineous or brownish, lunately incurved or straight proximally and only beak incurved, obliquely ovoid-acuminate, lanceoloid-, oblong-, or ovoid-ellipsoid, strongly obcompressed, 13–34 × 5–10(–12) mm, ± unilocular, valves less than 1 mm thick, thinly to thickly fleshy becoming thinly leathery, stiffly leathery, or subligneous, usually densely to sparsely strigulose or pilosulous, rarely glabrous.

27–40(–46).

24–36.