Flora of North America species comparison

obscured by stipules.

decumbent to ascending or erect, strigulose.

1.5–7.5 cm;

stipules 3–6.5 mm, membranous, pallid, with green midrib;

leaflets 3 or 5, blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 5–17 mm, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces strigose.

3–10.5 cm;

stipules 4–9 mm;

leaflets 5–11, blades flat, rhombic-oval to obovate or elliptic, 6–35(–50) mm, apex mucronate, surfaces strigose or glabrous.

1–3-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis to 0.3 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0 or 1.

4–10-flowered, flowers ascending-spreading;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–6 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 0.5–3.5 cm, mostly shorter than leaves.

incurved, 3.5–7 cm.

1.5–3 mm.

2–5 mm.

24.5–32 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–17 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 10.2–13 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple or purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 21.5–24.5 mm.

23–34 mm;

calyx 12–17.5 mm, strigulose, tube 11–14 mm, lobes subulate, 2–4 mm;

corolla ochroleucous (fading yellowish), or white (fading off-white);

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 22–23 mm, apex blunt.

ascending, stramineous, ± straight, obliquely lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 20–35(–40) × 8–12 mm, unilocular, valves much less than 1 mm thick, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, strigulose, hairs appressed, 0.5–0.7 mm.

spreading to declined, pallid-stramineous or brownish, straight or slightly incurved, cylindroid, inflated, 20–48 × 9–15 mm, moderately fleshy-thickened, becoming stiffly papery to leathery, strigose;

unilocular;

subsessile or substipitate.

38–54.

55–59.