Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, rarely decumbent, 0–2 cm underground, strigulose to pilose-villosulous.

prostrate to ascending, internodes well developed, sparsely strigulose-villosulous.

2.5–12 cm;

stipules 1.5–6 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous or submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades lanceolate to oblong, (3–)5–30(–32) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes villous-pilosulous, cinereous, glabrate, or glabrous abaxially, glabrous, glabrescent, or sparsely strigose adaxially.

4–6 cm;

stipules connate and scarious, 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–23, blades oblong-oblanceolate, -elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 1–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigulose-villosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3–)5–25(–33)-flowered;

axis 1–18(–20) cm in fruit, elongating little after flowering, arising distal to middle of stem;

bracts 1–3.5 mm;

bracteoles usually 0.

5–12-flowered;

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending or erect, 3.5–21(–23) cm, usually surpassing subtending leaf, together with racemes usually shorter than stems.

ascending, 0.5–2.5 cm.

0.5–3 mm.

0.8–1.3 mm.

(6–)7.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 4–6.8 mm, strigulose, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes subulate, 0.7–2.3 mm;

corolla usually purple, pink-purple, pink, lilac, lavender, or whitish, sometimes whitish with maculate keel;

wing apex obtuse;

keel 5.4–7.9 mm, shorter than wings.

4.5–5.5 mm;

calyx 2.8–4 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.9 mm.

pendulous, green or purplish, straight or slightly decurved, ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, faces slightly convex, flattened or depressed but not sulcate abaxially, 13–25 × 3.5–5.5 mm, subunilocular or semibilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely strigulose, hairs black or black and white;

valves inflexed as hyaline septum 0.2–2 mm wide;

stipe (0.5–)1.5–6.5 mm.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 6–10.5 × 2–3 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, finely strigulose;

septum 1 mm wide;

stipe 0.5–2.5 mm.

6–11.

6–11.