Flora of North America species comparison

erect to procumbent, branched, 3–5 dm;

from stout rootstock.

erect or ascending, often bushy, branched, 7–15 dm.

2.5–4.5 cm;

stipules subulate, 5–8 mm;

petiole 0.4–0.6 cm;

stipels absent;

petiolules 0.5–1 mm;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, usually opposite, rarely subopposite, blades obovate, 18–25 × 5–7 mm, terminal leaflet equal to or slightly larger than laterals, primarily wider distally, base cuneate, apex acute, mucronate, surfaces strigose abaxially, glabrous or glabrate adaxially.

2–8.5 cm;

stipules narrowly triangular, 0.5–1 mm;

petiole 0.5–1.3 cm;

stipels 0.5–1 mm;

petiolules 1–1.3 mm;

leaflets (7 or)9–13, ± opposite, blades obovate to oblanceolate, 8–20(–25) × 2–12 mm, base cuneate, apex broadly acute or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces strigulose, pale abaxially.

20–30+-flowered, lax, 3–10 cm.

15–40-flowered, lax, 4–12 cm.

2–5 cm.

1–2 cm.

1–1.5 mm.

1–2(–3) mm.

8–10 mm;

calyx 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly long-triangular;

corolla reddish.

6–9 mm;

calyx 1.5–2 mm, lobes deltate;

corolla dark pinkish buff to ochroleucous.

gray-brown, deflexed, cylindric, straight, 18–27 mm, leathery, glabrate.

dark brown, deflexed, ovoid or oblong, straight, 7–9 mm, woody, glabrate or sparsely strigulose.

7 or 8, yellowish green becoming brown in age, often with brown mottling, cuboid.

2 or 3, yellowish tan, bluntly ellipsoidal.

= 32.