Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

mostly prostrate with upturned tips, strigose, strigulose, pilose, pilosulous, villous, or subtomentose.

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.

1–6(–7.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–10(–11) mm, submembranous becoming scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3–17(–19) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

3–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 1–9 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.4–2.2 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.

5.9–11.8 mm;

calyx 3.2–7.6(–8.8) mm, strigose, tube 2.1–4(–4.1) mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, filiform-setaceous, or subulate, (1–)1.2–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla greenish to ochroleucous or purple, banner often suffused, margined, or veined purplish, pink, or lilac-purple, sometimes wing tips whitish;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 5.1–10 mm.

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

ascending to spreading, stramineous or brown, incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, semi-ovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, compressed, 6–20 × 3.5–6.5 mm, thickly fleshy becoming leathery or papery, strigulose or villosulous.

6–10.

6–26.