Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending, glabrous or sparsely strigulose.

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

4–9.5 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–15(or 17), blades ovate, ovate-oblong, or obovate-cuneate, 5–20 mm, apex retuse, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous 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.

5–20-flowered;

axis 1–4.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, 3–9 cm.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

0.5–1.2 mm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

7–9 mm;

calyx 3.2–4.6 mm, strigulose, tube 2–2.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.7 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes faintly tinged lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 4.8–5.5 mm.

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.

pendulous, stramineous or brown, lunate, linear-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 10–17 × 2.5–3.5 mm, papery, glabrous;

septum 1.3–2 mm wide;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

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.

8–10.

42–70.