Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, 14–60 cm, often conspicuously flexuous.

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

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.

5–37-flowered, flowers ascending to declined;

axis 1–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

incurved-ascending or divaricate, 1.5–10 cm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

5–9 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.

ellipsoid, turgid, not bladdery-inflated, length usually more than 2 times width, 5–8 mm wide (if shorter, less than 7 mm wide and texture leathery).

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.

10–20.