Flora of North America species comparison

usually prostrate, rarely decumbent, often branched from base, sometimes branched distally, leaves dispersed uniformly along stems;

pseudoscapes to 30 cm (when present);

cataphylls blond to brown, to 15 mm, veined.

mostly pseudopalmately 5-foliolate, sometimes proximalmost leaves pinnately 3-foliolate;

stipules persistent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 2–5.5 × 1–2 mm, appressed-spreading pubescent;

petiole swollen proximally, not jointed, slightly canaliculate, 6–75 mm;

petiolules 1 mm, terminal petiolule often to 10 mm;

leaflet blades elliptic to lanceolate or orbiculate (sometimes dimorphically so), 0.7–3.1 × 0.3–1.3 cm, base cuneate, apex broadly acute to acuminate, surfaces abaxially eglandular and glabrate to pubescent along veins, adaxially obscurely glandular and glabrate to pubescent with pubescent margins.

persistent, subcapitate to ovoid;

rachis 0.4–1.8 cm, nodes 1–5, 3 flowers per node, internodes to 5 mm;

bracts persistent, lanceolate to spatulate, 1–3 × 0.5–2 mm, margins pubescent.

0.5–10.5 cm, usually longer than subtending petiole, sparsely strigose.

0.5–2 mm.

6–9 mm;

calyx gibbous-campanulate in fruit, 4.5–6 mm abaxially, 4.5–5.5 mm adaxially, strigose, lobes rarely glandular;

tube stramineous, 2–4 mm;

abaxial lobe lanceolate or elliptic to slightly oblanceolate, 3.5–4 × 2 mm, adaxial lobes lanceolate, 2–3 × 1 mm;

corolla with whitish green to yellow base and salmon-pink apex, or yellow throughout, banner oblanceolate-obovate, 5–9 × 2–2.5 mm with claw 1.5–2.5 mm, wings 6–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm with claw 2–4 mm, keel 5–7 × 2–2.5 mm with claw 2–3.5 mm;

filaments 4.5–6.5 mm;

anthers elliptic, 0.3 mm;

ovary sparsely pubescent apically, style sparsely pubescent.

globose-ellipsoid, 4.5–5.5 × 4–5 mm, eglandular, sparsely strigose on distal 1/2, abruptly narrowing to a beak 5.5–10 mm, exserted well beyond calyx.

light brown or gray-brown, lenticular, 4.5 × 3–4 mm, shiny;

hilum surrounded by raised, white ridge.