Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to weakly ascending, branched proximally.

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

3–8(–11) cm;

leaflets 11–15(–19), blades obovate or oblanceolate, 5–15 mm, apex retuse, surfaces glabrate to densely strigulose, hairs appressed or subappressed.

3–10(–14) cm;

leaflets (11–)15–21(or 23), blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate, rhombic-obovate, elliptic, or ovate-cuneate, 4–20 mm, apex truncate-emarginate.

(11–)15–30(–37)-flowered, short and dense, cylindric or globose in fruit;

axis 1–4(–7) cm in fruit.

± densely becoming shortly (9–)12–24-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis not or little elongating, 1–4(–6) cm in fruit.

1–4(–7) cm.

(1.5–)2.5–8.5 cm.

8.8–11 mm;

calyx 4–6.5 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–1.4(–2) mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes wings and keel with lavender tips.

(12.6–)14.5–19 mm;

calyx 7–10.4 mm, tube (5.1–)5.5–8 mm, lobes 1.5–3.2 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

faintly mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, (8–)12–21 × (6–)7–12 mm, thinly papery, translucent, glabrous or strigulose;

beak 3–7 mm, unilocular.

green, purple- or red-tinged, or brightly mottled, slightly incurved, mostly plumply ovoid or subglobose, (10–)14–27(–30) × (6.5–)8–18 mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery or leathery, glabrous;

beak well-defined, triangular or deltoid, (3–)4–10 mm, unilocular or bilocular.

15–21(–25).

28–35.

= 22.