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 to ascending, internodes well developed, sparsely strigulose-villosulous.

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.

4–6 cm;

stipules connate and scarious, 1.5–4 mm;

leaflets (9 or)11–23, blades oblong-oblanceolate, -elliptic, or narrowly obovate, 1–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces strigulose-villosulous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

5–12-flowered;

axis 1.5–4 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–1.5 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

ascending, 0.5–2.5 cm.

1–3 mm.

0.8–1.3 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.

4.5–5.5 mm;

calyx 2.8–4 mm, strigulose, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes subulate, 1–1.8 mm;

corolla whitish, immaculate;

banner recurved through 90°;

keel 3.3–3.9 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.

pendulous, stramineous, lunate, oblong-ellipsoid, 3-sided compressed, 6–10.5 × 2–3 mm, thin becoming papery-membranous, finely strigulose;

septum 1 mm wide;

stipe 0.5–2.5 mm.

24–30.

6–11.