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 decumbent or ascending, 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.

4–12 cm;

stipules 2–8 mm, subherbaceous or papery;

leaflets (9 or)11–21(or 23), blades linear-oblong to narrowly elliptic, (3–)5–20(–24) mm, apex acute to obtuse, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

1–11-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.3–6 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

(10–)15–50-flowered;

axis (1.5–)3–8 cm in fruit;

bracts 1–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

0.5–15 cm.

erect or incurved-ascending, (2–)5–12 cm.

1–3 mm.

0.3–1.2 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.

4.2–6.2 mm;

calyx 2.5–3.6 mm, strigulose, tube 1.7–2 mm, lobes subulate, 0.8–1.8 mm;

corolla yellow to green, suffused pale lavender, fading ochroleucous, wing tips pale or white;

banner recurved through 45–90°;

keel 3.7–5 mm, apex round.

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.

stramineous, narrowly lanceoloid or linear-ellipsoid, 6–12 × 1.3–2 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, thin becoming papery, strigulose.

24–30.

6–10.

= 28.