Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to erect, sometimes glaucous, at least when young, glabrous or pubescent, hairs spreading to slightly incurved.

subsessile to petiolate, petiole to 1(–2) mm;

blade obovate or elliptic, 4–31 × 0.8–11 mm, base cuneate, apex rounded or acute, surfaces densely to sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, hairs spreading to slightly incurved.

terminal, sometimes reduced to (1 or)2–few flowers, 3–12.5 cm;

rachis thorn-tipped;

peduncle 0.1–0.5 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, rarely persistent, elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate.

(1.5–)3.5–10(–20.5) mm, glabrous or pubescent.

pink to rose, wings (and other sepals) sometimes light green, distal keel yellow or green, (6–)8–12(–13) mm;

sepals deciduous, ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, 2–7.2 mm, glabrous or pubescent;

wings obovate to elliptic-obovate, (5–)7–11.5(–12.2) × (2.3–)3–5.2(–5.9) mm, glabrous or pubescent;

keel (5.4–)6.2–10.5 mm, sac glabrous, beak oblong, 1–3 × 0.9–1.5 mm, glabrous.

ellipsoid to obovoid, 4.3–8.8(–10) × 3.7–7.3 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins with narrow, entire or slightly erose wing, glabrous or pubescent.

3.3–4.9 mm, ± evenly and moderately densely pubescent, occasionally with glabrate patches;

aril 1.2–3.1 mm, lobes to 1/2 length of seed.

= 18, 36.