Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to decumbent, (0–)2–9(–12) cm underground, strigose-strigulose, villous-hirsute, or villosulous.

obsolete (reduced to 1 to several crowns), with persistent thatch of stipules and petioles.

1–4.5(–5.5) cm;

stipules usually connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, sometimes distinct throughout, 1–4.5(–5) mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, thinly herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades oblanceolate- or obovate-cuneate, 2–12 mm, apex retuse or truncate and apiculate, surfaces villous abaxially, sparsely so adaxially.

(3–)4–10 cm;

stipules 6–10 mm, papery-membranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, (3–)5–14 mm, thick, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces villous-tomentose.

(2 or)3–13-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (0.2–)0.4–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3–)5–10-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 0.4–2.5 cm.

ascending, (2–)4–10 cm.

0.7–1.8 mm, disjointing in age.

3–5 mm.

(5.2–)6–8.5 mm;

calyx shallowly campanulate, 3.2–5.8(–6.2) mm, villous or villosulous, tube 1.3–2.6 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate or setaceous, (1–)1.4–3.6 mm;

corolla whitish or yellowish, banner and keel tips with lilac veins;

banner abruptly recurved through 90–100°;

keel 3.4–5.3 mm, apex bluntly triangular, obscurely beaklike.

35–41 mm;

calyx cylindric, 18–24 mm, villous, tube (12–)13.5–16 mm, lobes subulate to lanceolate, 3.5–8 mm;

corolla scarlet or crimson;

banner and keel nearly same length, recurved through 20–30°;

keel 35–40 mm.

spreading or declined (often humistrate), pale green or minutely purple-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, semi-ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 8–20 × (5–)6–11(–13) mm, unilocular or subunilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely long-villous or villosulous.

ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, incurved, obliquely lanceoloid-ovoid or narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, 25–40 × 9–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, densely villous-tomentulose, concealing surface.

(3–)5–9.

34–43.