Flora of North America species comparison

reduced to thick crowns.

prostrate to decumbent or 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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, subherbaceous or papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(or 23), blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–20(–24) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.2–2.7 cm in fruit;

bracts 3.5–10 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(10–)15–50-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–11 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)5–12 cm.

1.4–5 mm.

0.3–1.2 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.

4.2–6.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–3.6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla yellow to green, suffused pale lavender, fading ochroleucous, wing tips pale or white;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.7–5 mm, apex round.

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.

stramineous, narrowly lanceoloid or linear-ellipsoid, 6–12 × 1.3–2 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

27–40(–46).

6–10.

= 28.