Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules and marcescent leaf bases.

prostrate to ascending, 0–11 cm, internodes often concealed by white-hairy stipules and dense white hairs, villous-tomentulose.

unifoliolate or palmately trifoliolate, 1–3.5 cm;

stipules sometimes ruptured in age, 7–12 mm, hyaline;

leaflet blades spatulate to elliptic, (3–)5–9 mm, apex acute to subacute, surfaces silvery-pilosulous.

2–15 cm;

stipules sometimes shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 13–25, blades elliptic or ovate, 2–16 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces silvery-villous.

1- or 2-flowered, capitate;

axis obsolete or very short;

bracts sometimes tridentate, 3–6 mm;

bracteoles 2.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

subobsolete.

0.5–15 cm.

subobsolete.

1–3 mm.

12.3–17 mm;

calyx 8.3–10.5 mm, loosely villous, tube 5.9–6.5 mm, lobes linear to narrowly subulate, 2.4–4.2 mm;

corolla whitish to ochroleucous, petals glabrous abaxially;

banner differentiated into blade and claw, with shoulderlike projections at middle;

keel 11.1–12.8 mm.

18–26 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.3–18 mm, villous, tube 6.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–5.7 mm;

corolla often pink-purple, sometimes pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel concealing style, 14.6–18.6(–19) mm.

green, straight or slightly decurved, narrowly ellipsoid, 7–10 × 2.5–3 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, densely strigose-hirsutulous.

ascending, brightly purple-mottled, usually curved, obliquely ovoid-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, ventrally grooved proximally, 15–35 × 5.5–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming somewhat woody, strigose or villosulous.

11–14.

24–30.