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, loosely strigulose to 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.

3–10(–13) cm;

stipules (1–)2–7 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflet blades narrowly oblong-oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 5–18(–25) mm, apex retuse, surfaces strigulose to villosulous.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

12–35(–40)-flowered;

axis 2.5–10 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.5–6 mm;

bracteoles 0.

0.5–15 cm.

erect, (5–)7–15 cm.

1–3 mm.

0.8–2 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.

15–18.6 mm;

calyx gibbous-convex behind pedicel, 8–10.5 mm, villosulous or villous-tomentulose, tube 7.5–9 mm, lobes triangular, 1–2.1 mm;

corolla keel 11.5–14.3 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.

green becoming stramineous, 12–15 × (3–)3.4–4(–5.4) mm, stiffly leathery, glabrous or sparsely pilosulous;

stipe 6–10 mm, pilosulous.

24–30.