Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and ascending.

3–10 cm;

leaflets (5–)9–17(or 19), blades broadly obovate, obovate-cuneate, or oblong-elliptic to suborbiculate or oblanceolate, (3–)5–15 mm, apex retuse or obtuse.

(5–)6–17 cm;

leaflets (13 or)15–21(or 23), blades usually obovate, broadly elliptic, or rhombic-ovate, rarely suborbiculate, (4–)6–25 mm, apex emarginate or retuse.

8–18(–22)-flowered;

axis 0.5–3(–3.5) cm in fruit.

loosely (10–)15–33-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3.5–)4–12 cm in fruit.

1–3.5 cm.

3–7(–9) cm.

7.4–11 mm;

calyx 4.1–6.4 mm, tube 2.8–4.2 mm, lobes 1–2.2 mm;

corolla whitish or yellowish, sometimes faintly lilac.

(13.2–)14.5–18 mm;

calyx (5.3–)6.4–10.8 mm, tube (4.5–)4.8–7 mm, lobes (0.8–)1.6–3.8 mm;

corolla pink-purple, sometimes pale.

green, usually mottled, becoming stramineous or brownish, obliquely ovoid-acuminate to lanceoloid-acuminate, strongly to scarcely inflated, 10–23 × (3–)4.5–10 mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, opaque or nearly so, usually thinly strigulose, rarely puberulent;

beak 4–9 mm, unilocular.

green or faintly mottled becoming stramineous or purplish, narrowly to broadly ovoid-acuminate or broadly lanceoloid-acuminate, slightly or greatly inflated, 12–22 × (4–)5–13(–15) mm, bilocular, thinly papery, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent;

beak 4–8 mm, unilocular.

(15 or)16–21.

18–22.

= 22.

= 22.