Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate, gray-pilosulous.

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.

0.8–2.6 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades folded, obovate-cuneate, 2–6 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pilosulous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(3 or)4–7(or 8)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 0.3–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–11 cm.

0.3–0.7 cm, often paired at a node.

1.4–5 mm.

0.8–1.8 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.

4.8–5.3 mm;

calyx obconic-campanulate, 3.6–4.2 mm, white-pilosulous, tube 1.3–1.8 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 1.3–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, banner tinged or veins faint lilac;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.6 mm, apex obtuse.

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-declined, lunately ellipsoid-obovoid, laterally compressed, somewhat depressed but not grooved dorsally, lateral faces with shallow longitudinal groove, 4.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm, unilocular, sparsely pilosulous.

27–40(–46).

2 or 3.