Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

ascending to erect or sprawling, flexuous, (0–)1–8 cm underground, leafless, strigulose, hairs appressed.

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.

2–13 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, distinct or obscurely connate subherbaceous or firmly papery at distal nodes, 1–5.5 mm;

leaflets 9–17, blades oblanceolate to linear, 3–20(–25) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

9–27-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 2–11.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

1–6.5 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.7–3.5 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.

6.4–8.7 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.3–5.4 mm, strigose, tube 2.3–3.3 mm, lobes broadly subulate or triangular, 0.8–2.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 6–7.2 mm, apex triangular and beaklike.

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

spreading to declined, purple-mottled, straight, ovoid, ellipsoid, or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, 17–32 × 12–22 mm, papery, strigose;

sessile.

6–10.

21–32.

= 22.