Flora of North America species comparison

single or few, usually decumbent to ascending, rarely erect, villous-hirsutulous.

weak, reclining or scrambling through low shrubs, 1–4 cm underground, strigulose.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, subherbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (5–)9–15, blades oblanceolate to oblong or obovate, 2–13 mm, apex retuse to truncate or obtuse, surfaces loosely villous, sometimes glabrate adaxially.

2.5–5 cm;

stipules 2–3.5(–5) mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades linear, linear-oblong, or lanceolate to subfiliform, 3–15(–20) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose.

2–7-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.3–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

5–15-flowered;

axis 1.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.3–2 mm;

bracteoles 1 or 2.

incurved-ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

divaricate and incurved-ascending, 3–8 cm.

0.8–2 mm.

0.7–2.2 mm.

5.2–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–6.2 mm, hirsutulous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely ochroleucous and tinged with purple;

banner recurved 50–70°;

keel (5–)5.4–6.5 mm, apex narrowly triangular, sometimes slightly beaklike.

(6.5–)7–10 mm;

calyx (3.6–)4–5.6 mm, strigose, tube 2.5–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, (1.1–)1.7–2.2 mm;

corolla keel 6.4–8.5 mm.

spreading-declined, green or purple-cheeked or -dotted, becoming brownish or stramineous, lunately incurved or hooked, obliquely ovoid, turgid or somewhat inflated, 9–17(–20) × (4–)5–8(–11) mm, thinly fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, white-villous or hirsute, hairs spreading, curved, 0.7–2.2 mm.

reddish or green and red-mottled, becoming brown, 16–23 × 3.5–5 mm, leathery or stiffly papery, glabrous;

septum 3–4.5 mm wide;

stipe 3–5 mm.

10–19.

= 24.