Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, decumbent to ascending or straggling, often conspicuously flexuous, diffuse, strigulose.

aerial tips prostrate or ascending, nodes short, strigulose-pilosulous and ashy gray.

(3–)5–13 cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, papery at proximal nodes, subherbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (5 or)7–17, blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or narrowly oblong, 3–23 mm, apex obtuse or retuse, surfaces strigulose or, sometimes, glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

1.5–7(–8) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets mostly crowded, blades folded or involute, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(3–)7–21-flowered;

axis (1–)2.5–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

loosely (1–)3–6-flowered, (0–)1–10(–15) mm (in fruit);

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–9.5 cm.

procumbent (in fruit), 1–3(–6.5) cm.

1–2.5 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm, (1–2 mm in fruit).

13–16.3 mm;

calyx 5.9–8 mm, strigulose, hairs white, black, and brown, tube 5.3–7 mm, not swollen or gibbous proximally, marcescent, lobes triangular, 0.5–1.3 mm;

corolla whitish, banner and wing tips tinged with lilac, keel maculate;

keel 10–12.1 mm.

10.7–12.5 mm;

calyx 5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, keel apex maculate, banner veined and suffused with lilac;

keel 9–10 mm.

pendulous, brown-stramineous, ± straight to sigmoidally incurved through 0.5 spiral, lunately or falcately ellipsoid, subterete becoming laterally compressed, 20–35 × (5.5–)6.5–9 mm, stiffly leathery or subligneous, strigulose;

stipe 12–20 mm, arched downward from calyx, distally sigmoidal-incurved.

slightly incurved, 6.5–11.5 × 3–3.5 mm, thinly submembranous, strigulose.

30–36.

6–9.