Flora of North America species comparison

2–9 cm;

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

4.5–9.5 cm;

leaflets 11–17, blades usually narrowly to broadly obovate or ovate, rarely rhombic-suborbiculate, 5–14 mm, apex truncate-emarginate to subacute.

(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 (12–)20–35-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3.5–)4.5–10(–15) cm in fruit.

(1–)1.5–6.5 cm.

4.5–9 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.

12.2–14.3 mm;

calyx 6–7.6 mm, tube 4.5–4.9 mm, lobes 1.4–2.6 mm;

corolla pink-lavender.

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, unmottled, obliquely ovoid, inflated, 15–20 × 8–10 mm, bilocular, stiffly papery, densely silky-villous-tomentulose;

beak 2.5–4 mm, unilocular.

10–15.

23–28.