Flora of North America species comparison

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

single or few, decumbent with ascending tips or trailing and diffuse, densely white-strigulose-pilose.

(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.

(2–)3–9(–10) cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–5(–6.5) mm, herbaceous becoming papery;

leaflets (7 or)9–17, blades oblanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or elliptic, 4–16 mm, apex obtuse, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces pubescent.

(3 or)4–16-flowered;

axis 0.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3 or)4–9-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 1.5–5.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.8–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

incurved-ascending, 2–5.5 cm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

0.2–1 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.

(3.3–)3.5–6.5 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 3.3–4.3 mm, densely silvery-pilose, tube 2.1–2.7 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 1–1.6 mm;

corolla whitish, faintly tinged with pink-lilac or cream-pink;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 3.6–5 mm, apex round or narrowly triangular and beaklike.

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.

ascending, incurved, semi-ellipsoid or lunately ellipsoid, slightly inflated, scarcely bladdery, 10–17 × 4.5–7 mm, thin becoming papery, opaque, canescently strigulose-pilosulous.

(13–)15–30(–37).

(3 or)4–6(or 7).