Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to weakly ascending, often flexuous, (1–)2–10(–15) cm underground, strigulose-villosulous or hirsutulous, hairs stiff, straight, spreading or subretrorse.

ascending to ± erect, usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent.

1.5–8.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, obscurely connate or distinct and herbaceous or foliaceous at distal nodes, 1.5–6.5 mm;

leaflets 9–23, blades oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, 2–16 mm, apex obtuse, emarginate, or retuse, surfaces villosulous abaxially, villosulous or glabrate adaxially.

3–13 cm;

stipules connate throughout, 4–10 mm, scarious or subherbaceous;

leaflets 15–29, blades narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–12(–18) mm, apex rounded or slightly retuse, surfaces strigulose.

5–37-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

4–15-flowered, flowers ascending-erect;

axis 0.5–2.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 1.5–10 cm.

1–10 cm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

1 mm.

6–11 mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.4–6.3 mm, villosulous, tube 2.3–3.6 mm, lobes subulate, 0.9–2.9 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, fading yellowish, and usually suffused with purple;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (5.7–)6–7.7 mm, apex broadly deltate.

16–22 mm;

calyx cylindric, 7–10 mm, sparsely or densely strigulose, sometimes also pilosulous, tube 5–7.8 mm, lobes linear, 2.5–5.5 mm;

corolla blue-violet, pale blue, or pale lilac, often drying yellowish;

keel 12–15 mm.

spreading to declined, green or purplish, brightly red-mottled, straight, ovoid, ovoid-ellipsoid, ellipsoid, or cylindroid-ellipsoid, bladdery-inflated or turgid, subterete to dorsiventrally compressed, 12–27 × 3.5–13 mm, papery or papery-membranous, sparsely villosulous;

stipe 0.3–1 mm.

ascending to spreading or erect, straight or slightly incurved, narrowly oblong to narrowly ellipsoidal, 12–15 × 3 mm, widely keeled ventrally, sulcate dorsally, thin, densely hirsutulous with white hairs;

stipe 0.5 mm.

10–20.

= 16.