Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to ascending, 0–11 cm, internodes often concealed by white-hairy stipules and dense white hairs, villous-tomentulose.

erect or ascending, subappressed-pilose, densely white-tomentose basally.

2–15 cm;

stipules sometimes shortly connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 1.5–5.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery-scarious;

leaflets 13–25, blades elliptic or ovate, 2–16 mm, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces silvery-villous.

3.5–9(–10.5) cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, distinct at distal nodes, (2–)3–8 mm, submembranous;

leaflets 11–19(–23), blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic or narrowly oblong, (3–)5–15(–18) mm, apex acute to obtuse or apiculate, surfaces villous.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(5–)10–25-flowered, flowers spreading and declined;

axis (1.5–)3–10.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–2.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

erect, 0.5–5(–7) cm.

1–3 mm.

0.4–1.5 mm.

18–26 mm;

calyx cylindric, 8.3–18 mm, villous, tube 6.5–13.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.5–5.7 mm;

corolla often pink-purple, sometimes pale;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel concealing style, 14.6–18.6(–19) mm.

4.5–6(–7) mm;

calyx campanulate, 3.5–5.5 mm, villous-villosulous, tube 1.7–2.2 mm, lobes subulate-setaceous, (1.3–)1.5–3 mm;

corolla whitish or tinged lilac, drying yellowish;

banner recurved through 50°;

keel (3.6–)4–5 mm, apex bluntly deltate, sometimes obscurely beaklike.

ascending, brightly purple-mottled, usually curved, obliquely ovoid-oblong, dorsiventrally compressed, ventrally grooved proximally, 15–35 × 5.5–12 mm, unilocular, fleshy becoming somewhat woody, strigose or villosulous.

reflexed, pale green, straight, subsymmetrically lanceoloid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid, 3-sided or laterally compressed, 6–8.5(–9) × 2–2.7(–3) mm, papery, tomentulose.

24–30.

6–8.