Flora of North America species comparison

erect or decumbent, solid, not succulent.

ascending or prostrate, solid, not succulent.

8–16 mm;

rachis 1.5–5 mm;

leaflet blades: basal 2 obliquely ovate, terminal 3 obovate to obovate-elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, 5–15 × 1–4 mm, length 3.2–5 times width, apex rounded to ± acute.

5–30 mm;

rachis (1–)2–10 mm;

leaflet blades sometimes asymmetric, obovate to oblanceolate, oblong, or ovate, 4–22 × 2–11 mm, length 1.6–3(–4) times width, apex obtuse and mucronate or acuminate.

1(or 2[–4]-flowered;

bracts 1–3-foliolate.

(1–)3–8(–10)-flowered;

bracts (1–)3-foliolate.

ascending, 1–4.5(–6) cm.

decumbent to erect, 1.5–12 cm.

7–9.2[–10] mm;

calyx 4–6 mm, lobes erect in bud, triangular to deltate-acuminate, (1.5–)2–2.8[–3.5] mm, ± equaling tube, tube glabrate;

petals light yellow, ± pink-tinged abaxially, turning pinkish or red, 6.6–8.5 mm, wings equaling keel.

10–17 mm;

calyx 5–7.5 mm, lobes not recurved in bud, usually triangular, rarely ovate, (1.5–)2.5–4.5 mm, shorter to slightly longer than tube, tube villous;

petals bright yellow, marked with red, turning orange, 8–14 mm, wings shorter to longer than keel.

brown, cylindric, 15–25[–35] × 2–3 mm, not septate.

brown, narrowly oblong, 15–35 × 2–3 mm, not septate.

6–10[–30], brown, finely mottled, globose, 0.8–1.4 mm, smooth.

5–30, yellowish or light to dark brown, mottled or sometimes not, globose to round-oblong, 1–1.7 mm, smooth.

= 12.

= 24.