Flora of North America species comparison

± erect, loosely cespitose, branched.

procumbent, decumbent, or ascending, branched.

basal and cauline, palmate;

stipules ovate-lanceolate, 0.5–2 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes lobed, apex acute to acuminate;

petiole 0.5–12 cm;

petiolules 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades lanceolate or elliptic, 0.5–2 × 0.3–1.3 cm, base cuneate, veins prominent, margins serrate, apex acute, apiculate, surfaces glabrous.

palmate;

stipules ovate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire, apex subulate-setaceous;

petiole 0–7 cm;

petiolules to 0.5 mm;

leaflets 3, blades obovate or obcordate, 0.6–1.5 × 0.4–1 cm, base cuneate, veins thickened distally, margins spinulose-serrate, apex retuse or rounded, surfaces glabrous.

terminal or axillary, 15–30-flowered, ellipsoid or conic, 1.5–2 × 1–3 cm, rachis prolonged beyond flowers, undivided or forked, often bearing sterile flower buds distally;

involucres absent.

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

involucres absent.

2–13 cm, slightly twisted apically.

absent or to 0.1 cm.

strongly reflexed in fruit, 0.5 mm;

bracteoles minute, lanceolate.

straight, to 0.2 mm;

bracteoles linear, to 0.5 mm.

12–14 mm;

calyx pink to purple, campanulate, 3–3.5 mm, glabrous, veins 10 (5 sometimes faint), tube 1.5–1.7 mm, lobes subequal, triangular-subulate, orifice open;

corolla pink to deep purple, 12–14 mm, banner oblong, 12–14 × 4–5 mm, apex rounded or retuse.

6–8.5 mm;

calyx tubular-obconic, 3–4 mm, glabrous, veins 10–12, tube 1.5–2 mm, lobes equal, triangular-ovate, spreading to recurved in fruit, orifice open;

corolla pink, 6–8 mm, banner obovate, 6–8 × 1–2 mm, apex acute.

obliquely ellipsoid, 5 mm.

obovoid, 2–3 mm.

1 or 2, brown, often purple-mottled, flattened ovoid, 2–3 mm, smooth.

2, brown, reniform, 1 mm, tuberculate.

= 16.

= 14, 16.