Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, strigulose or glabrate.

usually prostrate or weakly ascending, sometimes erect, 0–20 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely strigose-strigulose.

1.5–5 cm;

stipules 1–3 mm, submembranous;

leaflets (5 or)7–11, blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate-cuneate, or cuneate, 2–8 mm, apex truncate or retuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or margins sparsely hairy adaxially.

2–13 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 2–13 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1–)5–21, blades elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 3–20 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose.

loosely 2–5(–7)-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis (0.4–)0.7–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending or incurved-ascending, 2.5–7 cm.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

0.5–1.5 mm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

5.4–10.5 mm;

calyx 2.9–4.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–1.5 mm;

corolla pink- or violet-purple, wings margined white, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 4.3–5.8 mm, apex broadly deltate, sometimes minutely beaklike.

10.3–27(–28) mm;

calyx usually purplish, cylindric, campanulate, or cylindro-campanulate, 6.3–14.2 mm, strigose, tube (3.4–)5.8–13.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–3.7(–4.5) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–23.6 mm.

deflexed, declined, or ascending (resupinate), mottled or suffused with purple, incurved, narrowly crescentic, bluntly 3-sided compressed, falling before splitting, dehiscent on ground, 12–20 × 2.6–3.4 mm, thin becoming papery, base round, strigulose or glabrous; bearing seeds near middle.

readily deciduous, ascending, green, sometimes mottled, usually incurved, crescentic, mostly dorsiventrally compressed, 15–40 × 5–12 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

8–12.

42–70.

= 24.