Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, 3–12 cm, (0–)1–8 cm underground, pilosulous.

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.

1–3 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, distinct and submembranous at distal nodes, 1–2.5 mm;

leaflets 7–19, blades oval to obovate, 1–5 mm, apex retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

2–7-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.3–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

2–6-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.2–0.8 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending, 0.5–4 cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.3–2.2 cm.

0.8–2 mm.

1.4–2.5 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.

6.8–8.5 mm;

calyx purplish, campanulate, 3.5–4.2 mm, pilosulous, tube 2.3–3 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.4 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly suffused with pink or purple;

banner abruptly recurved through 80°;

keel 4.8–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

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.

ascending to declined, purple-mottled, ovoid, bladdery-inflated, 10–23 × 8–14 mm, thin, translucent, strigose;

gynophore 0.1–0.8 mm.

10–19.

18–20.

= 24.