Flora of North America species comparison

(4–)5–9 cm;

leaflets 11–17, blades broadly obovate-cuneate or suborbiculate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse or retuse to emarginate.

(3–)4–9(–12) cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–19, blades ovate- or obovate-cuneate, broadly oblanceolate, or rhombic-elliptic, 5–19 mm, apex usually obtuse or emarginate, rarely subacute.

shortly and loosely 3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–3.5 cm in fruit.

loosely (8–)10–30-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (2.5–)4–11(–16) cm in fruit.

1–4 cm.

2.5–8.5(–10) cm.

20–23 mm;

calyx 8.5–10.5 mm, tube 8–10 mm, lobes 2.4–3 mm;

corolla whitish tinged with violet.

9.1–12(–12.4) mm;

calyx (3.4–)3.8–6(–7.9) mm, tube (2.8–)3–4.5 mm, lobes (0.6–)0.9–2(–3.5) mm;

corolla usually bright purple, rarely pink-lilac to pure white.

pale green or purple-speckled becoming stramineous or brownish, plumply ovoid, strongly inflated, 23–33 × 10–15 mm, ± bilocular, leathery or stiffly papery, minutely strigulose;

beak 5–15 mm, unilocular;

stipe 0.5–1.5 mm.

pale green, often purple-freckled or purple-mottled, usually broadly and plumply ovoid-acuminate, rarely quite narrowly so, nearly always bladdery-inflated, 14–27(–36) × (5–)8–18 mm, ± bilocular, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, glabrous or sparsely strigulose-villosulous;

beak (2–)3–7(–10) mm, unilocular.

24–32.

(17–)19–31.