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, strigulose or glabrous, or glabrate proximally.

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.

3.5–11 cm;

stipules 2–9 mm, scarious;

leaflet blades broadly obovate-cuneate or obovate-flabellate, 7–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse to retuse, surfaces glabrous.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(7–)12–33-flowered;

axis 4–20(–28) cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3.4 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

erect, 3.5–15 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx 4.7–5.5 mm, strigulose, tube 3–3.5 mm, lobes subulate, 1.7–2 mm;

corolla white, drying ochroleucous;

banner recurved through 60–80°;

keel 6.8–7.7 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.

incurved-ascending, green, sometimes purple-tinged or -mottled, becoming stramineous, sometimes suffused with purplish brown, incurved through 0.25 spiral, 8–15 × 3–5 mm, fleshy becoming leathery, glabrous;

stipe (2.5–)3–5 mm.

24–30.