Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and incurved-ascending, often red- or purple-tinged.

2–9 cm;

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

(2.5–)4–11 cm;

leaflets (7–)13–19, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, broadly oblong-oblanceolate, or obovate, (2–)5–17 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

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

axis obscured, (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit.

5–11-flowered, flowering from middle and distally, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.5–5 cm in fruit.

(1–)1.5–6.5 cm.

2.2–5 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.

12.5–14.5 mm;

calyx 7.5–10.2 mm, tube 5.2–5.8 mm, lobes 1.8–4.4 mm;

corolla bright pink-purple with pale, striate eye.

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.

purplish, often red-mottled, becoming stramineous, ellipsoid to lanceoloid-ovoid or ellipsoid-acuminate, moderately inflated, 23–34 × 6–15 mm, bilocular, stiffly papery or almost leathery, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

beak well-defined, triangular or deltoid, 7–12 mm, unilocular.

10–15.

40.