Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate.

2–5 cm;

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

2–9.5(–10.5) cm;

leaflets (7–)13–17, blades broadly obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 5–15 mm, apex retuse to round or subacute, adaxial surface usually strigose to strigulose, sometimes glabrate or glabrous.

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

axis 1–2 cm in fruit.

loosely 4–15(–17)-flowered;

axis elongating, 3–9.5 cm in fruit.

1.5–4 cm.

4.5–7.5 cm.

14–14.5 mm;

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

corolla purple.

13–17 mm;

calyx 6.3–7.4 mm, tube 4.8–5.5 mm, lobes 1.7–2 mm;

corolla pink- or red-purple, sometimes with pale or white wing tips.

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

beak incurved, 4–8 mm, unilocular.

evidently persistent, stramineous or mottled, linear-oblong to oblong or narrowly ellipsoid, not or scarcely inflated, 17–32 × 4–5.5(–7.5) mm, ± bilocular, somewhat fleshy becoming leathery or stiffly papery, strigulose;

beak 3–5 mm, unilocular;

stipe 0.1–1 mm.

12–20.

14–28.