Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent, 0–7 cm underground, hirsute.

decumbent or prostrate, sparsely strigulose, sometimes glabrous proximally.

(1.5–)3–10(–12) cm;

stipules rarely connate at proximal nodes, 2–8.5 mm, mostly thinly herbaceous, sometimes papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets (3–)7–15, blades thin, obovate, broadly oblanceolate, or suborbiculate, (2–)5–22 mm, larger ones pinnately veined, apex cuneate to emarginate, surfaces villous-pilose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

(2–)4–10(–12) cm;

stipules (1.5–)2–8 mm, papery at proximal nodes;

leaflets (9–)13–25(or 27), blades firm, oval, obovate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or suborbiculate, (2–)3–11(–13) mm, veins not apparent, apex round, truncate, or retuse, surfaces sparsely strigose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

densely (5–)8–24-flowered;

axis 1–3(–4) cm in fruit;

bracts (2–)2.5–5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(5–)10–21-flowered;

axis 1.5–5(–7.5) cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–1.4 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

incurved-ascending, (2–)3–11 cm.

decumbent or prostrate, (2–)5–15 cm.

0.7–2.5 mm.

0.8–2.4 mm.

8.8–11.2 mm;

calyx 5.5–7.8(–8.2) mm, pilose, tube 2.7–3.7 mm, lobes lanceolate to lanceolate-attenuate, (2.7–)3–4.5(–5) mm;

corolla pale yellow to greenish ochroleucous, fading yellowish, keel immaculate;

banner recurved through 50–80°;

keel 7.2–9.7 mm, apex narrowly deltate, acute or subacute, often beaklike.

8.2–15.5 mm;

calyx 3.1–6.3 mm, strigulose, tube 2.4–4 mm, lobes subulate, 1–2 mm;

corolla pink-purple, purplish, or whitish, fading yellowish, sometimes wing tips whitish, banner veins lilac, keel tip maculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel 5.5–9.3 mm, apex blunt.

ascending or spreading (humistrate), pale yellow green becoming stramineous then brownish, incurved or ± straight, slenderly lunate-ellipsoid or semi-ellipsoid, bluntly 3-sided compressed, (15–)17–25 × (2.8–)3.2–5.2 mm, subunilocular, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, densely hirsute, hairs spreading-ascending, to 1.2–1.8 mm, lustrous white;

gynophore to 0.8 mm.

usually ascending, rarely declined (humistrate), green becoming brown then blackish, incurved, narrowly lunate-ellipsoid to obliquely oblong-, ovoid-, or obovoid-ellipsoid, somewhat dorsiventrally compressed, 13–25 × 3.5–7 mm, subunilocular, thinly fleshy becoming leathery, not especially reticulate, glabrous;

gynophore 0.4–1.4 mm.

12–18.

16–37.