Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

aerial tips prostrate or ascending, nodes short, strigulose-pilosulous and ashy gray.

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.

1.5–7(–8) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing, 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets mostly crowded, blades folded or involute, ovate, ovate-oblong, or elliptic, 2–10 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces pubescent, sometimes glabrescent adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

loosely (1–)3–6-flowered, (0–)1–10(–15) mm (in fruit);

bracts 1.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

procumbent (in fruit), 1–3(–6.5) cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.5–1.5 mm, (1–2 mm in fruit).

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.

10.7–12.5 mm;

calyx 5–7 mm, strigulose, tube 3–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, keel apex maculate, banner veined and suffused with lilac;

keel 9–10 mm.

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

slightly incurved, 6.5–11.5 × 3–3.5 mm, thinly submembranous, strigulose.

6–10.

6–9.