Flora of North America species comparison

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

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

(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.

0.5–3 cm;

stipules distinct, 1.5–3 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 1.5–5 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces ashen-strigulose.

(3 or)4–16-flowered;

axis 0.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(1 or)2(or 3)-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–0.3(–0.4) cm in fruit, slightly elongating;

bracts 0.7–2.2 mm;

bracteoles 0.

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

axillary, ascending, 0.2–0.6 cm.

0.5–2.5 mm.

2.2–3.5 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.

9–11.5 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4–5.9 mm, silky-strigulose, tube 3.2–4.2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple, wing tips whitish, keel maculate, or near-white;

keel 7.5–8.7 mm, apex blunt.

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 or spreading, green, slightly incurved, obliquely-ovoid, laterally compressed, 5–7.5 × 2.8–3.8 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, densely strigulose.

(13–)15–30(–37).

8–10.

= 22.