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.

obscured by marcescent leaf bases and stipules.

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.

mostly reduced to phyllodia, 1–2.5 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing throughout, 1.5–5 mm, membranous;

phyllodia oblanceolate or spatulate proximally, linear-oblanceolate distally, 10–25 mm, apex acute or subacute, surfaces strigose.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

densely 1–4-flowered;

axis 0–0.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

ascending, prostrate in fruit, 1–2.5 cm.

1–3 mm.

0.6–1 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.

5.2–7 mm;

calyx turbinate-campanulate, 2.5–3.3 mm, strigose, tube 1.7–2.1 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.2 mm;

corolla pink purplish;

banner recurved through 50–70°;

keel 3.7–4.3 mm.

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.

ascending, green, often red-mottled, becoming stramineous, straight or slightly curved, narrowly and obliquely lanceoloid to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 5.5–8.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm, papery, usually strigose, rarely glabrous;

sessile.

24–30.

7–11.