Flora of North America species comparison

1–20+, often decumbent, sometimes ascending, unbranched, fleshy, base often spongy.

stipules lanceolate-ovate to ovate or deltate, 2–8 mm, ± scarious, fragile; petiolate to long-petiolate;

rachis ± straight, 1–4 cm;

leaflets (3–)5–7, petiolulate, blades elliptic to obovate, 6–20 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

ascending to spreading, 2.3–9 cm, equaling or longer than subtending leaf, elongating in fruit, glabrous;

bract subtending umbel, 1–3(–7)-foliolate.

(2 or)3–9-flowered.

10–16 mm;

calyx reddish, 4.5–6 mm, glabrous, tube cylindric, 2.5–4 mm, lobes subulate to narrowly triangular, 2–2.5 mm, eciliate;

corolla banner yellow, wings and keel pale to dark pink, sometimes whitish, wings fading white, keel pink- to purple-tipped, wings ± equaling or longer than keel, claw longer than calyx tube, banner reflexed to 180°, keel apex acute to subacute.

± ascending to ± inclined, brown, oblong, turgid, 20–30 × 2–3 mm, thinly leathery, incompletely septate, glabrous.

(8–)10–14(–16), olive brown to brown, oblong, 1–1.5 mm.

= 14.