Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate and radiating, 0–10 cm, internodes usually concealed by stipules, densely pannose-tomentose.

prostrate, 0–15 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely white-pilose.

1.5–12 cm;

stipules 3–10 mm, membranous;

leaflets 9–19, blades obovate or suborbiculate to ovate, 2–15 mm, apex usually obtuse to emarginate, sometimes acute, surfaces densely villous-tomentose.

2–11 cm;

stipules 2–5 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 9–21, blades obovate, suborbiculate, or lanceolate, 2–13 mm, apex obtuse to truncate or emarginate, surfaces villous.

2–8-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.4–2.6 cm in fruit;

bracts 4–9 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–15-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.5–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 3–7.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

ascending, decumbent in fruit, 1–14 cm.

erect or arcuate-ascending, spreading or procumbent in fruit, 2–8(–12) cm.

2–4.3 mm.

1–1.5 mm.

23–31 mm;

calyx cylindric, 12–14 mm, villous-tomentose, tube 8.5–13 mm, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 2–4.5 mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel (16–)17–22 mm.

16–26 mm;

calyx purplish, cylindric, 6.8–13.3 mm, villous-pilose, tube 5.5–10.8 mm, lobes subulate, 1–3.2 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel (12–)13–20.7 mm.

initially ascending (humistrate), color concealed by hairs, ± straight, lanceoloid-ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid-acuminate, obcompressed, 17–30 × 5.5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming stiffly papery or thinly leathery, shaggy-villous, hairs 4–8 mm, obscuring surface;

sessile and gynophore 1–2.5 mm.

ascending-spreading, stramineous, incurved, oblong-ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–20 × 5–7.5 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming leathery, hirsute, longest hairs 2–2.5 mm, not obscuring surface.

22–31.

24–34.

= 22.