Flora of North America species comparison

densely hirsutulous, hairs ascending or spreading, stiff, ± straight, 0.5–0.7 mm.

low, diffuse, 4–15(–20) cm.

ascending, erect, decumbent, or prostrate, sometimes diffuse, 2–6 cm underground, strigulose.

(1.5–)2–4 cm;

leaflets 9–17, blades 3–13 mm.

(1–)1.5–10(–11) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing and papery at proximal nodes, connate or distinct and subherbaceous at distal nodes, 1–5 mm;

leaflets (5–)9–21, blades oblong-oblanceolate, elliptic, narrowly obovate, or linear-elliptic, 2–21 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces usually strigulose, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous adaxially.

5–9-flowered;

axis 0.5–2 cm in fruit.

(3 or)4–16-flowered;

axis 0.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

incurved-ascending or erect, 1–9.5(–12) cm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

calyx 5.8–9 mm, tube 4.4–5.6 mm, lobes 1.2–1.8 mm, hirsutulous, hairs white or mixed black and white;

corolla ochroleucous;

banner (8.3–)10–14.2(–16.5) mm.

(8.3–)9–17.2 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–9.3 mm, strigulose, hairs white, sometimes also black, tube 3.5–5.9 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–3.6 mm;

corolla ochroleucous, pinkish white, lilac, or pink-purple, wing tips often paler than banner;

banner recurved through 50–80°;

keel 7.3–13.8, apex narrowly triangular, acute or subacute, often slightly beaked.

obovoid, tapering to base, 15–35(–42) × 10–20(–25) mm, glabrous;

stipe 3–5(–7) mm.

green, usually red- or purple-mottled, becoming stramineous, balloon-shaped, bladdery-inflated, 15–60(–75) × (8–)10–25(–35) mm, apex broad, round, beak obsolete, papery-membranous, translucent, glabrous or strigulose;

stipe 2–9 mm.

13–25.

(13–)15–30(–37).