Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent or weakly ascending, flexuous or zigzag in age, glabrous or glabrate.

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.

5–15 cm;

leaflets 15–21(–25), blades broadly oblong-elliptic, ovate-oblong, or suborbiculate, 5–20(–25) mm, apex rounded, truncate, or retuse.

loosely 4–15(–17)-flowered;

axis elongating, 3–9.5 cm in fruit.

shortly (8–)10–25-flowered, compact in fruit;

axis little elongating, 1.5–4(–5) cm in fruit.

4.5–7.5 cm.

(2–)3–10 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.

(12.5–)13.2–20 mm;

calyx 7.5–10.8 mm, tube (4.5–)5–7.5 mm, lobes (2.5–)3–5 mm;

corolla purple or pale pink-purple.

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.

mottled, obliquely ovoid or semi-ovoid, ± strongly inflated, 13–25(–30) × 6.5–14 mm, ± bilocular, stiffly papery, glabrous;

beak 5–8 mm, unilocular.

14–28.

20–33.