Flora of North America species comparison

strigulose, hairs appressed or narrowly ascending, straight or subsinuous, (0.3–)0.4–0.6 mm.

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

low and diffuse or erect (when supported by sagebrush), 5–25 cm.

(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.

(1.5–)3–11 cm;

leaflets 9–17(or 19), blades 2–13(–15) mm.

(3 or)4–16-flowered;

axis 0.5–7 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0.

(3–)5–15-flowered;

axis 1–4(–4.5) cm in fruit.

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

0.5–2.5 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.

calyx 4.5–6.4 mm, tube (3.5–)3.7–4.2(–4.7) mm, lobes 0.8–1.5(–1.8) mm;

corolla lilac or pink-purple, wing tips pale or white;

banner (8.3–)10–14.2(–16.5) 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.

15–30(–40) × 10–18(–22) mm, glabrous;

stipe 2–4.5 mm.

(13–)15–30(–37).

18–30.

= 22.