Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, cespitose, short-branched.

erect or ascending, branched.

mostly basal, palmate;

stipules lanceolate, 0.4–0.8 cm, margins entire or lobed, apex acute or acuminate;

petiole 1–6 cm;

petiolules to 0.5 mm;

leaflets 3, blades broadly ovate, 0.4–2 × 0.3–1.5 cm, base cuneate, veins thickened distally, ± straight, sometimes arching distally, 0.5+ mm apart, 5–10 pairs of primary veins, margins sharply antrorse-serrate, apex acute, short-apiculate, surfaces glabrous.

palmate;

stipules triangular-lanceolate, 0.7–1.5 cm, margins entire, apex stramineous, subulate;

petiole 1.5–5 cm;

petiolules 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades obovate, oblong, or elliptic, 0.8–1.8 × 0.4–0.9 cm, base cuneate, veins prominent, margins dentate-spinulose, apex rounded to emarginate, surfaces glabrous.

terminal, 5–20-flowered, erect, globose or subglobose, 0.5–1.5 × 0.8–2.5 cm, rachis prolonged beyond flowers, undivided or forked, often bearing sterile flower buds distally;

involucres a narrow, membranous, dentate rim, 0.5 mm.

axillary, 15–30-flowered, globose, 0.8–1 × 0.8–1 cm;

involucres absent.

straight distally, proximal to inflorescence, 5–8 cm.

0.5–2 cm.

strongly reflexed, 1.5 mm;

bracteoles broadly ovate, truncate, membranous, to 0.5 mm.

recurved in fruit, 1 mm;

bracteoles folded, linear-subulate, 4–5 mm.

13–17 mm;

calyx campanulate, 4.5–6.5 mm, glabrous, veins 10 (5 sometimes faint), tube 2–3 mm, lobes subequal, narrowly triangular-subulate, equaling tube, orifice open;

corolla salmon, buff-pink, or pink, with white or cream tips, 13–17 mm, banner broadly elliptic-oblong, 13–17 × 6–8 mm, apex rounded, retuse or slightly apiculate.

4–5 mm;

calyx obconic, 4–5 mm, glabrous, veins 10, tube 1.3–2.1 mm, lobes unequal, longer than tube, subulate, recurved in fruit, orifice open;

corolla white or pink, 3.2–4.5 mm, banner ovate, 3–4 × 1–2 mm, apex acute to rounded, entire to slightly erose distally.

stipitate, obovoid-oblong, 6–7 mm.

ovoid-oblong, 4.2–5.5 mm.

1–4, brown, lenticular-ovoid, 2.5–3 mm, smooth.

2, brown, ovoid-reniform, 1 mm, minutely granulose.

= 16.

= 16.