Flora of North America species comparison

many, decumbent, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

mostly prostrate with upturned tips, strigose, strigulose, pilose, pilosulous, villous, or subtomentose.

3–7 cm;

stipules 2.5–5 mm, membranous or membranous-margined;

leaflets 13–25(–29), blades oblanceolate or obovate-cuneate, 6–16 mm, apex retuse or apiculate, surfaces glabrous (except midrib sparsely strigose) abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1–6(–7.5) cm;

stipules 1.5–10(–11) mm, submembranous becoming scarious;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate to obovate, (2–)3–17(–19) mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces strigose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous adaxially.

5–7-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–2 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm;

bracteoles 2.

3–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1–9(–13) cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–7 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

reclined in fruit, 2–6 cm.

divaricate or incurved-ascending, 1–9 cm.

1.5–5 mm.

0.4–2.2 mm.

16–23 mm;

calyx short-cylindric, 9.5–11 mm, strigulose, tube 5.5–6.5 mm, lobes linear-subulate, 3.5–4.5 mm;

corolla whitish;

keel 12–13 mm.

5.9–11.8 mm;

calyx 3.2–7.6(–8.8) mm, strigose, tube 2.1–4(–4.1) mm, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, filiform-setaceous, or subulate, (1–)1.2–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla greenish to ochroleucous or purple, banner often suffused, margined, or veined purplish, pink, or lilac-purple, sometimes wing tips whitish;

banner recurved through 50–85°;

keel 5.1–10 mm.

ascending (humistrate), stramineous, slightly incurved, obliquely oblong-ovoid, obcompressed, 20–40 × (9–)11–19 mm, bilocular, fleshy becoming woody, glabrous;

septum 3–4 mm wide;

stipe 5–20 mm.

ascending to spreading, stramineous or brown, incurved, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, lanceoloid-ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid, linear-oblong, oblanceoloid, semi-ovoid, or semi-ellipsoid, compressed, 6–20 × 3.5–6.5 mm, thickly fleshy becoming leathery or papery, strigulose or villosulous.

26–28.

6–26.