Flora of North America species comparison

incurved-ascending, decumbent, or prostrate, usually sparsely to densely strigulose or strigose-pilosulous, rarely silky-villosulous.

only tips produced aboveground, 0–5 cm, 2–30 cm underground, often with marcescent leaf rachises, densely canescent-hirsutulous.

1–5.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, mostly connate and herbaceous at distal nodes, turning black in drying, 2–5 mm;

leaflets (5 or)7–13, blades elliptic, linear-elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly obovate, 2–12 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse or retuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose abaxially, silky-strigulose, villosulous, glabrescent, or glabrous adaxially.

1–4 cm;

stipules ± obscuring stem, 2–4 mm, papery-scarious;

leaflet blades ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, 1–7 mm, apex obtuse, mucronate, or emarginate, surfaces pilosulous.

3–7(–11)-flowered, flowers spreading;

axis 0.5–3 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.5–2.7 mm;

bracteoles 0–1.

2–5-flowered;

axis 0.2–1 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.2–4 cm.

ascending, 1–3 cm.

1.5–3.5(–4.2) mm.

1–1.5 mm.

(4.3–)5.2–9.3 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2.4–4.5 mm, strigose, tube 1.4–2.2 mm, lobes setaceous, (0.8–)1.3–2.5 mm;

corolla pink-purple, lilac, or whitish, sometimes lilac-tipped or -tinged, banner sometimes purple-veined, keel maculate;

banner abruptly recurved through 90°;

keel (2.9–)3.4–5.6 mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx 5.5–7 mm, hirsutulous, tube 3–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1.8–3 mm;

corolla pink-purple or whitish, usually suffused with purple, keel tip purple;

keel not concealing style, 9–11 mm, apex long-attenuate and beaklike.

deflexed or declined, stramineous, straight, ellipsoid, obovoid-ellipsoid, oblong-ellipsoid, or linear, laterally flattened, 3.5–12 × 1.8–3.5 mm, bicarinate, papery, strigose;

stipe 0–0.3 mm.

mottled, straight, 12–18 × 8–15 mm, papery, spreading-hairy.

(4 or)5–8(–11).