Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate.

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

2–5 cm;

leaflets 9–15(or 17), blades oblanceolate, 6–18 mm, terminal leaflet 7–15 mm, apex obtuse or subacute.

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 6–12-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 1–2 cm in fruit.

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

axis 1–2.5(–5) cm in fruit.

1.5–4 cm.

1.5–4.5(–6.5) cm.

14–14.5 mm;

calyx 7–8 mm, tube 4.8–5.5 mm, lobes 2.2–2.5 mm;

corolla 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.

mottled, ovoid or broadly lanceoloid, moderately inflated, 16–26 × 9–12 mm, semibilocular, stiffly papery, strigulose;

beak incurved, 4–8 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.

12–20.

13–20.