Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched from base and distally, or unbranched.

prostrate, ascending, or erect, branched.

palmate;

stipules ovate-oblong, 0.5–1.8 cm, margins entire, toothed, or irregularly lobed, apex acuminate;

petiole 0.5–10 cm;

petiolules to 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades broadly obovate or elliptic, 1.7–3.3 × 1.1–2 cm, base cuneate, veins fine, margins entire or denticulate, apex rounded, obtuse, or retuse, surfaces pilose, abaxial less so.

palmate;

stipules triangular-lanceolate, 0.9–1 cm, margins entire, apex long-acuminate, reflexing;

petiole 1–10 cm;

petiolules to 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades obovate or obcordate, 0.4–1.5 × 0.4–1 cm, base cuneate, veins prominent, recurved, margins coarsely dentate, apex rounded, truncate, or emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

terminal or axillary, 30–50-flowered, bluntly conic, ellipsoid, globose, or subglobose, 1.5–3 × 1.5–2.5 cm;

involucres absent.

axillary or terminal, 8–20-flowered, depressed-globose, 0.9–1.1 × 0.8–1 cm;

involucres absent.

5–15 cm.

0.6–1.5 cm, becoming shorter distally.

absent;

bracteoles cuplike, to 0.5 mm.

reflexed in fruit, 0.5–2 mm;

bracteoles lanceolate, 1 mm.

13–16 mm;

calyx tubular, 9–12 mm, pubescent, veins 20–30, tube 3 mm, lobes nearly equal, appearing rigidly erect, linear-setaceous, plumose, sinuses acute, orifice open;

corolla white to pink with purple tips, 12–16 mm, banner ovate-oblong, 12–15 × 4 mm, apex broadly rounded, emarginate.

4–5.5 mm;

calyx tubular-campanulate, 4 mm, glabrous, veins 10, tube 2–2.2 mm, lobes subequal, triangular-subulate, margins green, pink, or purple, orifice open;

corolla pink, 4–5 mm, banner obovate, 4–5 × 1–2 mm, apex deeply emarginate.

obovoid, 4 mm.

ovoid-ellipsoid, 4 mm.

1, dark brown, ellipsoid, 2–3 mm, smooth.

1–4, yellow, ovoid, 0.8–1 mm, minutely papillate.

= 16.