Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and ascending.

2–9 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–17(–21), blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly oblong, (3–)5–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse or subacute.

(5–)6–17 cm;

leaflets (13 or)15–21(or 23), blades usually obovate, broadly elliptic, or rhombic-ovate, rarely suborbiculate, (4–)6–25 mm, apex emarginate or retuse.

(9–)12–35-flowered, crowded into subglobose or cylindric heads, short and compact in fruit;

axis obscured, (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit.

loosely (10–)15–33-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3.5–)4–12 cm in fruit.

(1–)1.5–6.5 cm.

3–7(–9) cm.

8.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 5–7.3 mm, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.8 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes with purple veins, or pink-purple with white wing tips.

(13.2–)14.5–18 mm;

calyx (5.3–)6.4–10.8 mm, tube (4.5–)4.8–7 mm, lobes (0.8–)1.6–3.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple, sometimes pale.

pale green and purple-mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate, bladdery-inflated, 9–17 × 8–14 mm, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, strigulose;

beak decurved, triangular, 3–5 mm, unilocular.

green or faintly mottled becoming stramineous or purplish, narrowly to broadly ovoid-acuminate or broadly lanceoloid-acuminate, slightly or greatly inflated, 12–22 × (4–)5–13(–15) mm, bilocular, thinly papery, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent;

beak 4–8 mm, unilocular.

10–15.

18–22.

= 22.