Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to erect, densely pubescent, hairs spreading.

erect to sprawling or decumbent, sometimes glaucous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs incurved.

subsessile;

blade elliptic or obovate, 6–20(–26) × 3–10(–12) mm, base cuneate, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces pubescent, hairs spreading.

petiolate, petiole 0.5–5 mm;

blade linear to ovate, 10–50(–65) × (3–)4–11(–16) mm, base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate to rounded, surfaces glabrous or pubescent at least along basal midvein abaxially, hairs incurved.

terminal, sometimes leaf-opposed, 1–3.5 × 1.5–2.8 cm;

rachis weakly thorn-tipped (often not clearly visible when young);

peduncle 0–0.5 cm;

bracts semipersistent, lanceolate to linear.

terminal, sometimes appearing axillary, 1–8(–22) × 1.5–3 cm;

rachis not thorn-tipped;

peduncle 0.2–0.6 cm;

bracts deciduous to subpersistent, lanceolate to ovate.

3–7(–8.6) mm, pubescent.

2.5–11 mm, pubescent or glabrous.

pink and white, sepals pink or brownish pink, margins white, keel beak yellow to yellow-green, (7.5–)8.5–13(–14) mm;

sepals persistent, elliptic or ovate, (3–)3.5–6(–7) mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

wings narrowly elliptic to obovate, (7.2–)8–11.5(–12.3) ×3.2–5.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

keel (6.5–)7.2–10.7 mm, sac spreading-pubescent in distal 1/2, sometimes also proximally, beak oblong, (1.6–)1.9–3.2 × (0.5–)0.7–1 mm, pubescent.

cream, greenish, or pink, keel distally rose, fading green, 7–14 mm;

sepals deciduous, ovate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, 1.8–4.5(–5.2) mm, pubescent;

wings obovate to elliptic, (6–)6.3–11(–12) × (3–)3.5–5.6(–6) mm, usually pubescent, rarely glabrous, margins ciliate;

keel 7.5–10.2 mm, sac glabrous or sparsely pubescent, beak linear, entire, 0.5–2.5 × 0.2 mm, pubescent.

ellipsoid, 4.8–8.5 × 4–5.7 mm, base obtuse or rounded, margins with very narrow wing, sparsely pubescent.

ovoid to subglobose, 5.9–10.2 × 6–9.6 mm, base rounded to truncate or subcordate, margins with narrow, entire or slightly erose wing, glabrous, margins sometimes ciliolate.

3.5–4.8 mm, pubescent;

aril 0.8–2.6 mm, lobes 0–1/2 length of seed.

4.5–7.3 mm, pubescent;

aril 2–5.2 mm, lobes 1/4–1/2 length of seed.

= 18.