Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

prostrate or diffuse, 1–6+ cm underground, minutely strigulose.

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.

1–6.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at least at proximal nodes, often becoming anthocyanic and somewhat enlarged at distal nodes, 3–6 mm, thinly herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflet blades elliptic to oblong, 1.5–8 mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces strigulose, sometimes glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

1–5-flowered;

axis 1–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

ascending, (2.5–)3–10 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

1.8–4 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.

12–20 mm;

calyx 6–6.7 mm, black-strigose to glabrate, tube 3–4.7 mm, lobes triangular-acuminate to linear, 1–2.5 mm;

corolla keel 11.2–13.7 mm.

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

pale green with purple dots, curved in 0.5–1 spiral, laterally compressed, 30–50 × 50–75 mm, papery-membranous, semitransparent, minutely strigose;

gynophore 4–10 mm.

6–10.

= 22.