Flora of North America species comparison

erect-ascending, cespitose, mat-forming, branched;

from deep taproot-like crown.

ascending, erect, or procumbent, branched.

palmate;

stipules ovate or lanceolate, 0.5–1.5 cm, margins entire, apex long-acuminate;

petiole 1–5 cm;

petiolules to 0.5 mm;

leaflets (3–)5, blades obovate, 0.5–2.2 × 0.2–1.2 cm, base cuneate, veins obscured by pubescence, margins entire, apex rounded or acute, apiculate, surfaces canescent.

palmate;

stipules lanceolate or ovate, 0.5–1.8 cm, margins entire, apex acuminate-filiform;

petiole 0.5–20 cm;

petiolules to 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades obovate, ovate, elliptic, or rhombic, 1–3 × 0.5–3 cm, base cuneate, veins moderately prominent, margins spinulose-dentate, apex rounded or broadly acute, surfaces hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

axillary, 10–20-flowered, depressed-globose, 1–2 × 1–2.3 cm;

involucres formed of connate, narrow, membranous bracts, to 0.5 mm.

axillary, 15–30-flowered, subglobose to globose, flowers resupinate, forming stellate-spreading clusters in fruit, 0.5–1.6 × 0.8–1.5 cm;

involucres a narrow rim, 0.2 mm.

1–14 cm.

1–6 cm.

absent;

bracteoles absent.

slightly reflexed, to 0.5 mm;

bracteoles minute or absent.

10–17 mm;

calyx campanulate, 9–11 mm, pilose, veins 10, tube 4–5 mm, lobes equal, subulate, plumose, orifice open;

corolla white or pink, 10–17 mm, banner ovate-oblong, 12–19 × 3–5 mm, apex rounded, retuse.

5–6 mm;

calyx tubular-campanulate, inflated in fruit, markedly asymmetric-bilabiate, slit between adaxial lobes, 2.5–3 mm, 8–11 mm in fruit, hairy, short-hairy or glabrescent in fruit, veins 10, connected by lateral veins, tube 2 mm, 7–9 mm in fruit, lobes green, erect, unequal, triangular, divergent, linear-lanceolate, unequal in fruit, orifice open;

corolla pink to purple, 5–8 mm, banner oblong, 5–8 × 2 mm, apex emarginate to crenulate.

ellipsoid, 4–5 mm.

lenticular, 1.8–2.2 mm.

1 (or 2), tan or brown, irregularly ovoid, 1.6–2 mm, smooth, glossy.

1, ovoid, dark purple, olive green, yellow, or reddish brown, 1.5–1.9 mm, smooth, dull.

= 14, 16, 32.