Flora of North America species comparison

(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.

7–14 cm;

leaflets 13–21, blades oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, (3–)7.5–15 mm, apex retuse-emarginate.

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.

loosely (7–)15–20-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (4–)5.5–9 cm in fruit.

1–5 cm.

7–11 cm.

(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.

(13–)15–16.7 mm;

calyx 6.7–8 mm, tube 5–5.7 mm, lobes 1.6–2.3 mm;

corolla purple.

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.

green and unmottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid or subglobose, inflated but firm, 15–22 × 9–13 mm, stiffly papery or almost leathery, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

beak 2–5 mm, unilocular.

(21–)24–32(–38).

22–34.