Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent, sparsely strigulose.

1.5–5 cm;

leaflets 9–15, blades broadly elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 2–7 mm.

1.5–10.5 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–4 mm, mostly herbaceous or submembranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate, oblong-oblanceolate to -obovate, obcordate, suborbiculate, or elliptic, 2–15 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(1 or)2–6-flowered;

axis (0–)1.5–2.5 cm in fruit.

(1 or)2–10-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis (0–)1–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 2.

ascending, 1–7.5 cm.

1–3.5 mm.

calyx 3–3.5 mm, tube 1.5–1.9 × 1.6–2 mm, lobes 1.5–2 mm;

corolla banner recurved through 90°, 5.5–6.6 mm.

5.5–8 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3–4.3 mm, strigulose, hair white or partly black, tube 1.5–2.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2 mm;

corolla white, banner with pink veins;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex bluntly deltate.

purplish-tinged or -mottled, obliquely semi-ovoid, carinate ventrally by the concavely arched suture, openly sulcate dorsally in proximal 1/2–2/3, (5–)6–8 × 2.7–4 mm, contracted distally into a broadly triangular, laterally flattened beak;

septum very narrow or obsolete, to 0.2 mm wide.

ascending, spreading, or loosely declined, green, purplish, or purple- or red-mottled becoming brownish or stramineous, incurved, narrowly oblanceoloid or obliquely semi-ovoid, ± inflated, ± 3-sided compressed, (5–)6–26 × 2.7–5 mm, thin becoming papery, finely strigulose, hairs straight, appressed;

gynophore conical, short.

6–15.

sometimes copious.