Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and ascending;

ashy canescent or green.

(2.5–)4–13 cm;

leaflets (7–)11–21(–25), blades obovate-cuneate to broadly oblanceolate or rhombic-elliptic, 4–15(–17) mm, apex usually obtuse or emarginate, rarely acute or subacute.

2–9 cm;

leaflets (9 or)11–17(–21), blades oblanceolate, elliptic, or narrowly oblong, (3–)5–15(–18) mm, apex obtuse or subacute.

loosely (10–)12–25-flowered, lax and open in fruit;

axis (3–)4–15(–17) cm in fruit.

(9–)12–35-flowered, crowded into subglobose or cylindric heads, short and compact in fruit;

axis obscured, (0.5–)1–4 cm in fruit.

3–8(–9) cm.

(1–)1.5–6.5 cm.

11.1–15 mm;

calyx 4.7–6.5 mm, tube 3.7–5.2 mm, lobes 1–1.4(–1.5) mm, adaxial pair usually shortest;

corolla pink- or magenta-purple.

8.2–11.5 mm;

calyx 5–7.3 mm, tube 3.2–4.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.8 mm;

corolla whitish, sometimes with purple veins, or pink-purple with white wing tips.

pale green or mottled becoming stramineous, obliquely ovoid or subglobose, bladdery-inflated, (12–)15–27(–30) × 8–14(–15) mm, bilocular, stiffly papery, opaque, sparsely strigulose to densely and canescently strigose-villosulous;

beak (3–)4–9 mm, unilocular.

pale green and purple-mottled becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid-acuminate, bladdery-inflated, 9–17 × 8–14 mm, papery-membranous, subtranslucent, strigulose;

beak decurved, triangular, 3–5 mm, unilocular.

23–29.

10–15.

= 22.