Flora of North America species comparison

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

stiffly erect or ascending, branched at base and appearing clustered, 40–80 cm, glabrescent or sparsely uncinate-puberulent.

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.

unifoliolate;

stipules caducous, narrowly ovate, 3–9 mm;

petiole 10–30 mm;

leaflet blades linear, (40–)70–130 × 2–5 mm, length 10+ times width, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces uncinate-puberulent and sparsely strigose on veins abaxially, uncinate-puberulent adaxially.

lax-flowered, terminal and axillary, usually unbranched;

rachis densely spreading-pubescent;

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

branched or unbranched;

rachis sparsely uncinate-puberulent;

primary bracts ovate, 2–3 mm.

3–10 mm.

10–20 mm, uncinate-puberulent or glabrescent.

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.

calyx 2 mm, puberulent and uncinate-puberulent, tube 0.8 mm;

abaxial lobes 1.2 mm, lateral lobes 1 mm;

corolla ephemeral, purple, 3 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.

margins slightly involute, sutures equally crenate;

connections central, 1/4 as broad as segments;

segments 3–6, broadly elliptic, (2–)3–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, convex or rounded abaxially and adaxially, sparsely uncinate-puberulent, sutures moderately uncinate-puberulent;

stipe to 1 mm.