Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, ascending, or erect, branched.

erect, unbranched or sparsely branched.

palmate;

stipules ovate or triangular-lanceolate, 0.4–1.2 cm, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate;

petiole 0.5–7 cm;

petiolules to 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades obovate, obcordate, or elliptic, 0.4–1.5 × 0.3–1 cm, base cuneate, veins moderately prominent, margins denticulate, apex rounded or emarginate, surfaces sparsely hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially.

palmate;

stipules ovate, 1–2 cm, margins wavy or toothed, apex blunt or ± tapering distally;

petiole 1–8 cm;

petiolules 1 mm;

leaflets 3, blades broadly ovate, 1–3 × 1–1.5 cm, base cuneate, veins fine, margins denticulate, apex emarginate or retuse, surfaces with spreading, pustulate-based hairs.

axillary, 10–20-flowered, subglobose, soon becoming globose, flowers resupinate, calyces densely white-woolly, compacted, inflated, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1.5 cm;

involucres a narrow rim, 0.2 mm.

terminal, 25–100-flowered, oblong, 2–7 × 1–2.5 cm;

involucres absent.

0.5–1.5 cm.

2–10 cm.

slightly reflexed, to 0.5 mm;

bracteoles cup-shaped, membranous, 0.2 mm.

straight, 0.5 mm;

bracteoles absent.

3–7 mm;

calyx tubular, inflated in fruit, markedly asymmetric-bilabiate, 2–6 mm, woolly adaxially, veins 5–10, connected by lateral veins, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, 4–5 mm in fruit, lobes unequal, subulate, shorter than tube, adaxial spreading or curved, orifice open, abruptly constricted in fruit;

corolla pink, 3–6 mm, banner ovate, 3–6 × 3–6 mm, apex emarginate to crenulate.

10–15 mm;

calyx tubular-campanulate, 10 mm, villous, veins 10, tube 3–4 mm, lobes equal, longer than tube, spreading in fruit, orifice narrowly opening;

corolla usually scarlet to red, rarely pink or white, 11–17 mm, banner oblong-elliptic, much longer than wing and keel petals, 10–16 × 2 mm, apex acute.

ovoid to globose, 2–3 mm.

ovoid, leathery distally, transversely dehiscent, 2.5–3 mm.

1 or 2, yellow to brown, mottled, mitten-shaped, 0.9–1.1 mm, smooth, glossy.

1, reddish, ellipsoid, 2–2.5 mm, smooth, glossy.

= 16.

= 14.