Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, sparsely strigulose.

prostrate, 0–4(–6) cm, internodes to 8 mm, strigulose.

2–15 cm;

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

leaflet blades linear, linear-oblanceolate, or filiform, 5–30 mm, apex acute, subacute, or, often, mucronate, surfaces silvery-canescent, more densely so adaxially;

terminal leaflet sometimes decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(1–)2–6.5 cm;

stipules (2–)2.5–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 7–15, blades obovate, oval, or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2–8(–11) mm, apex usually obtuse, sometimes subacute or obscurely emarginate, surfaces strigulose.

(3–)5–25-flowered;

axis 2–20 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

(3–)5–14-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.4–1.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

erect, 3–25 cm.

incurved-ascending, 3–6.5 cm.

0.7–4 mm.

0.7–1.6 mm.

14.5–26 mm;

calyx 7.9–13.7 mm, strigulose, tube 6.5–10 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 1.5–4.3 mm;

corolla keel 12.8–18.5 mm.

7–8.3 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.6–5.1 mm, strigulose, tube 3.5–3.9 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or purple-veined or -margined;

banner abruptly recurved through 90–100°;

keel 6.9–7.8 mm.

firmly attached to receptacle, falling while still attached to pedicel, stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, obliquely ovoid or plumply oblong, 15–31 × 5–12 mm, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous;

septum (0–)1–2.5(–4) mm wide.

long-persistent on receptacle, spreading or ascending, brown or black, ± straight, plumply ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 9–18 × 4–7(–8) mm, unilocular or subunilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose.

22–32.