Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent.

1.5–5.5 cm;

leaflets (9–)15–21, crowded, blades obovate or oblanceolate, (1–)2–10 mm, apex obtuse or retuse.

1–5 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–19, mostly conduplicate, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, oval, or obovate, 1.5–7 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

(4–)10–21-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis (0.3–)1–2.5 cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely (2 or)3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit.

0.5–2 cm.

0.6–2.5 cm.

(8.8–)9.8–12 mm;

calyx (4.8–)5.4–7.3 mm, tube (3.6–)3.9–4.9 mm, lobes (1–)1.2–2.4 mm;

corolla whitish or cream, sometimes with pink tips.

9.3–11.3 mm;

calyx 4.1–5.3 mm, tube 3.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.6–1.2 mm;

corolla whitish or suffused purplish.

usually faintly mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid- or ellipsoid-acuminate, strongly inflated, 10–18 × (5–)6–12 mm, thinly papery, strigulose or, sometimes, glabrous;

beak erect or incurved, deltoid, 3–5 mm, unilocular.

in loose or compact, humistrate clusters, pale green or stramineous, purple-mottled, becoming brownish, globose or very broadly and plumply ovoid or obovoid, bladdery-inflated, 6–13 × 6–10 mm, papery, subtranslucent, sparsely and loosely strigulose;

beak linear- or subulate-tubular, cusplike, bilocular.

(12–)14–19.

(7–)10–18.