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.

3–11 cm;

leaflets 15–21, blades lanceolate-elliptic to obovate, 8–18 mm, apex 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.

7–17-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–4 cm in fruit.

1–5 cm.

3–6.5 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.

17–20 mm;

calyx 7–10.4 mm, tube 6–6.8 mm, lobes 3–3.5 mm;

corolla pale violet.

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, sometimes mottled, becoming stramineous, ovoid, greatly inflated, 19–27 × 11–16(–19) mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, thinly translucent, glabrous.

(21–)24–32(–38).

30–35.