Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate or decumbent, sparsely strigulose.

(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.

1.5–10.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, mostly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate, oblong-oblanceolate to -obovate, obcordate, suborbiculate, or elliptic, 2–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(3–)7–21-flowered;

axis (1–)2.5–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis (0–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

4–9.5 cm.

ascending, 1–7.5 cm.

1–2.5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

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.

5.5–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–4.3 mm, strigulose, hair white or partly black, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla white, banner with pink veins;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

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.

ascending, spreading, or loosely declined, green, purplish, or purple- or red-mottled becoming brownish or stramineous, incurved, narrowly oblanceoloid or obliquely semi-ovoid, ± inflated, ± 3-sided compressed, (5–)6–26 × 2.7–5 mm, thin becoming papery, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

gynophore conical, short.

30–36.

6–15.