Flora of North America species comparison

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

(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.

3–13(–16) cm;

leaflets (7–)15–25, blades oval-obovate, broadly oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, (2–)6–16(–21)mm, apex obtuse and apiculate, truncate, acute, or subacute.

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.

7–18-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–2.5(–5) cm in fruit.

1–5 cm.

1.5–4.5(–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.

12.6–17 mm;

calyx (6.2–)6.7–10 mm, tube 5–6.5 mm, lobes (1.2–)1.6–3.5(–4) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely whitish.

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.

usually mottled becoming stramineous, narrowly to broadly ovoid-acuminate, ± strongly inflated, 8–20 × 4–11 mm, thinly papery, glabrous or exceptionally puberulent;

beak triangular-acuminate, (3–)4–11 mm, unilocular.

(21–)24–32(–38).

13–20.