Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or weakly ascending, diffuse, modestly flexuous, 1–3 cm underground, strigulose to subvillosulous.

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.

(1.5–)2–4 cm;

stipules connate and papery-scarious at proximal nodes, distinct and membranous at distal nodes, 1.5–3 mm;

leaflets 9–15, blades oblong-ovate or oblong-cuneate, 3–9 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces densely strigulose to subvillosulous abaxially, glabrate 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.

(3–)7–14-flowered, flowers initially spreading, later declined;

axis (1–)2–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

divaricate and ascending, (0.8–)1.5–3.5 cm, together with racemes shorter than stems.

0.5–3 mm.

0.5 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.

5.6–5.8 mm;

calyx campanulate or obconic-campanulate, 2.2–2.6 mm, strigulose, hairs white and fuscous, sometimes also black, tube 1.4–1.9 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–0.7 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with lilac;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 3.5–3.7 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, green with purple speckles becoming stramineous, slightly decurved, ellipsoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, obcompressed, dehiscent while attached, 6–9.5 × (2.5–)3–3.3 mm, papery, white-villosulous;

valves inflexed, if at all, as hyaline septum 0–0.1 mm wide;

stipe 0.4 mm.

6–11.

4–6.