Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

prostrate to decumbent or ascending, 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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, subherbaceous or papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(or 23), blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–20(–24) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(10–)15–50-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)5–12 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.3–1.2 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.

4.2–6.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–3.6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla yellow to green, suffused pale lavender, fading ochroleucous, wing tips pale or white;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.7–5 mm, apex round.

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

stramineous, narrowly lanceoloid or linear-ellipsoid, 6–12 × 1.3–2 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

6–10.

6–10.

= 28.