Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, gray-pilosulous.

decumbent-ascending to erect, strigulose.

0.8–2.6 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–2.5 mm;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades folded, obovate-cuneate, 2–6 mm, apex emarginate, surfaces pilosulous.

(2–)4–17 cm;

stipules 4–13(–16) mm, papery-scarious, pallid;

leaflet blades oblong to elliptic, (4–)7–27(–33) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces sparsely to moderately strigose, sometimes glabrous adaxially.

(3 or)4–7(or 8)-flowered, flowers declined;

axis 0.3–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–1.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(7–)10–50-flowered;

axis (0.6–)1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 2–8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.3–0.7 cm, often paired at a node.

erect or incurved-ascending, (3–)4–14(–16.5) cm.

0.8–1.8 mm.

to 0.8 mm.

4.8–5.3 mm;

calyx obconic-campanulate, 3.6–4.2 mm, white-pilosulous, tube 1.3–1.8 mm, lobes slenderly subulate, 1.3–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, banner tinged or veins faint lilac;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.6 mm, apex obtuse.

11.5–19.5 mm;

calyx [4.8–]5.6–10.5 mm, strigulose, tube [3–]4–7 × 2–3.2 mm, lobes subulate or subulate-setaceous, 0.4–4.2 mm;

corolla keel 8–15 mm.

spreading-declined, lunately ellipsoid-obovoid, laterally compressed, somewhat depressed but not grooved dorsally, lateral faces with shallow longitudinal groove, 4.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm, unilocular, sparsely pilosulous.

stramineous, ovoid-, oblong-, or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, or narrowly oblong, [5.5–]6–12 × 2.3–4 mm, thin becoming papery, strigulose;

stipe 0–1.8 mm.

2 or 3.