Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

(4–)6–13 cm;

leaflets 11–17(–23), blades broadly obovate, ovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)6–15 mm, apex shallowly notched or obtuse.

(4–)5–11 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–17(or 19), blades usually broadly obovate-cuneate, elliptic, or suborbiculate, rarely rhombic-elliptic, (4–)7–20 mm, apex usually obtuse, retuse, truncate, or apiculate, rarely acute.

shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely (5–)7–15-flowered, flowering from near or proximal to middle nodes, short and compact in fruit;

axis little elongating, 1–3.5 cm in fruit.

1.5–6 cm.

1–5 cm.

(11.3–)15–19 mm;

calyx (6.5–)7–12.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5.6–8.2 mm, lobes (1.4–)2–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

(12.6–)14–21.4 mm;

calyx (8–)8.5–12.5 mm, tube (5–)5.5–8(–9) mm, lobes 2.4–5 mm;

corolla usually whitish, rarely purple.

green, red-mottled, becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.6 cm, leathery, glabrous;

beak 2.5–5 mm, bilocular.

variable in length, outline, and curvature, pale green or purple-speckled becoming stramineous or brownish, plumply ovoid or narrowly lanceoloid-ellipsoid, (13–)15–40(–48) × 7–14 mm, ± bilocular, strongly or slightly inflated, ± fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, usually glabrous, sometimes minutely strigulose;

beak deltoid or lanceolate-acuminate, 5–15 mm, unilocular.

(12–)22–28.

(21–)24–32(–38).