Flora of North America species comparison

woody, vigorous, horizontal, creeping, developing new shoots.

unbranched or sparsely branched, 4–10(–15) dm.

(3–)4–11 cm;

stipules 1–4 mm;

petiole 3–20 mm;

leaflet blades oblong-obovate, narrowly oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 3–18 × 3–9 mm, apex retuse to obtuse, apiculate, or acute, surfaces strigulose abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

ascending;

bracts 1–4 mm;

bracteoles immediately subtending calyx, 0.5–1 mm.

(2.5–)3–7(–9) cm, 5–18 cm in fruit.

2.5–5 mm, in fruit ± recurved, thickened, 3–8 mm.

calyx persistent, 5–6 mm, strigulose, lobes triangular, 1.2–2 mm, subequal, shorter than tube, becoming papery;

corolla drying lavender or brownish, 10–15 mm.

green to purplish, sulcate abaxially, 13–35 mm, 10–20 mm diam. pressed, papery, membranous, semitransparent, strigulose to glabrate;

stipe 4–8(–12) mm.

brown to greenish or reddish brown, dull, smooth.