Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate or decumbent.

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.

1–5 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–19, mostly conduplicate, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, oval, or obovate, 1.5–7 mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

loosely 4–15(–17)-flowered;

axis elongating, 3–9.5 cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely (2 or)3–9-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.3–1.5 cm in fruit.

4.5–7.5 cm.

0.6–2.5 cm.

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.

9.3–11.3 mm;

calyx 4.1–5.3 mm, tube 3.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.6–1.2 mm;

corolla whitish or suffused purplish.

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.

in loose or compact, humistrate clusters, pale green or stramineous, purple-mottled, becoming brownish, globose or very broadly and plumply ovoid or obovoid, bladdery-inflated, 6–13 × 6–10 mm, papery, subtranslucent, sparsely and loosely strigulose;

beak linear- or subulate-tubular, cusplike, bilocular.

14–28.

(7–)10–18.