Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

prostrate to decumbent, (0–)2–9(–12) cm underground, strigose-strigulose, villous-hirsute, or villosulous.

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.

1–4.5(–5.5) cm;

stipules usually connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, sometimes distinct throughout, 1–4.5(–5) mm, papery-scarious at proximal nodes, thinly herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets (3–)7–13, blades oblanceolate- or obovate-cuneate, 2–12 mm, apex retuse or truncate and apiculate, surfaces villous abaxially, sparsely so adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(2 or)3–13-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis (0.2–)0.4–1.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–2.5 cm.

incurved-ascending, 0.4–2.5 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.7–1.8 mm, disjointing in age.

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.

(5.2–)6–8.5 mm;

calyx shallowly campanulate, 3.2–5.8(–6.2) mm, villous or villosulous, tube 1.3–2.6 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate or setaceous, (1–)1.4–3.6 mm;

corolla whitish or yellowish, banner and keel tips with lilac veins;

banner abruptly recurved through 90–100°;

keel 3.4–5.3 mm, apex bluntly triangular, obscurely beaklike.

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

spreading or declined (often humistrate), pale green or minutely purple-dotted becoming stramineous, straight or slightly incurved, semi-ovoid or ovoid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 8–20 × (5–)6–11(–13) mm, unilocular or subunilocular, papery-membranous, sparsely long-villous or villosulous.

6–10.

(3–)5–9.