Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

diffuse or erect to decumbent-clambering, sparsely strigulose-pilosulous.

1–4 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, hyaline, densely pilose abaxially;

leaflets usually 3, rarely 5, blades narrowly to broadly oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, 3–13 mm, apex subacute, surfaces silvery-pilose.

2–10 cm;

stipules (1–)2–11 mm, papery-scarious proximally, submembranous at distal nodes;

leaflets 13–23, blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 4–18 mm, apex obtuse to retuse or acute, surfaces strigulose.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, 1.5–15 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm.

5–6.2(–8) mm;

calyx campanulate, 2.4–4.2 mm, densely pilose, tube 2–3 mm, lobes triangular-subulate, 1–1.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple or white, often drying yellowish;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 4–4.5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

17–24 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–12.5 mm, villous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, sometimes ochroleucous or nearly white;

keel 11.4–14 mm.

ascending or recurved, ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 3–4.5 × 2 mm, papery, densely silky-strigose or silky-pilose.

erect, green becoming dark, ± straight, oblong-ellipsoid, obtusely 3-sided, 7–10 × 2.8–4.5 mm, sulcate abaxially, scarcely swollen, thinly papery, densely silky-villous;

stipe 0.3–1 mm.

6–10.

= 16.