Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched, 50–200 cm, conspicuously or sparsely villous and uncinate-pubescent.

slender, procumbent or decumbent, 20–100 cm, densely patent uncinate-puberulent and/or inconspicuously pilose.

trifoliolate;

stipules mostly persistent, usually reflexed, broadly or narrowly ovate, 5–13 mm, base oblique, often auriculate, subamplexicaul;

petiole 30–60 mm;

leaflet blades ovate, thick, papery, apex acute to gradually acuminate, surfaces densely uncinate-puberulent abaxially, uncinate-puberulent and pubescent on veins adaxially;

terminal blade 50–130 × 30–100 mm, length 1.5–2 times width.

trifoliolate;

stipules persistent, obliquely ovate, 2–3.5 mm, base auriculate, amplexicaul;

petiole 10–20 mm;

leaflet blades usually ovate to shortly elliptic, rarely narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, surfaces appressed-pubescent;

terminal blade usually 10–35(–50) × 7–30 mm, length (1.5–)2–3 times width.

paniclelike, branched;

rachis densely patent bulbous-villous and uncinate-puberulent;

primary bracts caducous, narrowly ovate, 4–6 mm.

lax-flowered, terminal and axillary, usually unbranched;

rachis densely spreading-pubescent;

primary bracts caducous, narrowly ovate, 1.5–2 mm.

persistent, 8–13 mm.

3–10 mm.

calyx 3–5 mm, sparsely or densely puberulent, tube 1 mm;

abaxial lobes to 3 mm, lateral lobes 1 mm;

corolla usually purple to pinkish, rarely white, 9–13 mm.

calyx 1.5–2.5 mm, pilose, tube 1 mm;

abaxial lobes 1.5 mm, lateral lobes 0.7–1 mm;

corolla lavender-pink or reddish purple, banner with yellow spots, 4–5 mm.

sutures dentate or crenate abaxially, sinuate adaxially;

connections adaxial, 1/3–1/2 as broad as segments;

segments 4–6, broadly elliptic, 6.5–13 × 4–7 mm, obtusely angled abaxially becoming round, convex adaxially, uncinate-puberulent and villous, hairs particularly dense on sutures and between segments;

stipe 2.5–6 mm.

turgid, straight or curved, linear;

sutures equally shallow-undulate;

connections central, 2/3–3/4 as broad as segments;

segments 5–10, narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, 4–5 × 1.5 mm, rugose, not reticulate, symmetrically convex abaxially and adaxially, densely uncinate-pubescent throughout;

stipe 1 mm.

= 22.