Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

erect or ascending, densely silvery white-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.

(2.5–)5–15(–16.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–5 mm, papery;

leaflet blades linear or linear-oblong, (3–)5–25(–34) mm, apex truncate-emarginate or subacute, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, densely silvery white-strigulose adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(4 or)5–20(–28)-flowered;

axis (2–)3–13 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.7–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect, (5–)7–20 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.9–3 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.

15–22 mm;

calyx 5.5–9.5 mm, strigose, tube 3.6–5 mm, lobes subulate, (1.5–)1.8–4.3 mm;

corolla keel 10.7–15.3 mm.

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

brownish or stramineous, strongly laterally compressed, 12–28 × 4–7.5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery or subligneous, glabrous;

septum 3.5–6 mm wide; stipitate (stipe 4–8 mm).

6–10.