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.

prostrate, when developed, 0–2.5 cm, mostly obscured by stipules, strigulose.

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.

1.5–9 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, connate or distinct at distal nodes, 2–5 cm, membranous;

leaflets 5–17, blades elliptic, oblanceolate, or obovate, 3–12 mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigose.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

4–13-flowered, flowers ascending or spreading;

axis 1.5–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

erect, 2–9 cm.

1–3 mm.

0.5–2 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.

12–16 mm;

calyx cylindric, 6–8.5 mm, strigose, tube 4.5–6 mm, lobes subulate, 1.2–2.5 mm;

corolla purplish;

keel 9.5–12.5 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.

declined to deflexed, green, usually red-mottled or -spotted, becoming stramineous, lunately incurved, obliquely ovoid or lanceoloid-ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, 10–14 × 3.5–6.5 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, thickly papery, hirsute, hairs lustrous;

sessile, gynophore 0.3–0.8 mm.

24–30.

20.