Petalostemon prostratus

Petalostemon prostratus Wooton & Standley, Contr U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 138. 1913.
A perennial; stem prostrate, 5-8 dm. long, much branched, glabrous, glandular-punctate; leaves 2-4 cm. long, Spreading; petioles as long as the rachis; stipules subulate; leaflets 7-8, crowded, cuneate-oblanceolate, 5-8 mm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, glabrous, glaucous, conspicuously glandular-dotted; s'pikes short-peduncled, rather lax, cylindric, in fruit 5-10 cm. long, 8 mm. thick; bracts broadly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, fully as long as the calyces or buds, early deciduous; calyx oblique, 4 mm. long, glabrous, conspicuously glandularpunctate; tube 10-ribbed, especially below; lobes acute, shorter than the tube, ciliolate on the margins, the upper two triangular-ovate, the lower three lanceolate; corolla rose-colored; blade of the banner reniform, 3 mm. long, 4—5 mm. broad, the claw 4 mm. long; blades of the other petals elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 3 mm. long, the claws 0.5 mm. long; pod glabrous, 3.5 mm. long, obliquely obovate, almost semiorbicular.
Typb locality': Albuquerque. New Mexico. Distribution: New Mexico.