Dwarf, tufted, perennial, semi-succulent, grayish-green herb with leaves clustered on very short thick branches that remain near the ground; leaves linear to narrowly oblong, 1.5-5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, smooth or with a few minute hairs; flowering ...
Caulescent perennial, 3.5-6.5 dm tall; basifixed pubescent; stems buried for 1-6 cm, erect-ascending, forming diffuse clumps; stipules 1.5-4.5 mm long, some connate-sheathing; leaves 3.5-6.5 cm long; leaflets 5-7 (9), linear, acute, strigose, 8-28 m...
Perennial; stems short, prostrate, 1-6 cm long; herbage densely villous or villosulous with basifixed hairs; leaves 4-9 cm long; leaflets (7)9-15, often folded, 3-12 mm long, 2-3 times longer than wide; stipules free; inflorescences taller than or i...
Tufted perennial herb; stems numerous, ascending, 1-5 cm long, arising from a taproot; herbage gray-strigose with dolabriform hairs; stipules of the lower nodes connate; leaves pinnately compound, 2.5-8.5 cm long; stalks long, wiry, and sometimes per...
Strong perennial from a stout taproot; stems prostrate to spreading, 20-70 cm long; leaves pinnately compound, 1-2.5 cm long, bright green, leaflets 5-9, thick, broadest near tip, 3-8 mm long; flowers in spikes, zygomorphic, pea-like, petals 5, pale ...
Perennial herb 1-2 m tall; stems glabrous or puberulent, sometimes reddish at the base; leaves all on stem and withered from the basal 1/5 of the stem at the time of anthesis, petioles 7-13 cm long, blades 10-20 cm long and 7-12 cm wide, palmately di...
Perennial herb 1.0-1.8 m tall; lower part of stem glabrous, usually green, but sometimes reddish; leaves all on stem and absent from the stem base at the time of anthesis, petioles 5-12 cm long, blades 8-16 cm long and 6-10 cm wide, palmately divided...
Perennials, less commonly biennial; leaves ovate-lanceolate, slightly coriaceous, coarsely serrate with gland-tipped teeth; achenes monomorphic. Flowering June-September.