Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, silvery-pilose.

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.

3–20 cm;

stipules 5–15 mm;

leaflets 5–11(or 13), blades lanceolate to elliptic or obovate, 6–25 mm, apex acute, surfaces densely strigose.

(2 or)3–5-flowered;

axis to 1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm.

(4 or)5–8-flowered, flowers erect-ascending;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–2.5 cm.

recurved in fruit, 1.5–11 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

1.2–4 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.

17.5–23 mm;

calyx cylindric, (8.5–)9.5–14 mm, loosely strigulose, tube 7–11 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 1–3.5 mm;

corolla ochroleucous or greenish white, often tinged faintly purplish, keel tip purple;

banner recurved through 35–45°;

keel (14–)15–18.5 mm.

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

ascending (humistrate in fruit), reddish to stramineous, incurved, plumply ovoid, inflated, moderately obcompressed, (15–)17–23 × 10–15 mm, unilocular, leathery, hirsute, hairs lustrous, to 2+ mm.

6–10.

24–38.