Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and ascending;

ashy canescent or green.

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

(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.

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

axis (3–)4–15(–17) cm in fruit.

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

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

3–8(–9) cm.

(2–)3–10 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.

(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.

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.

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

beak 5–8 mm, unilocular.

23–29.

20–33.

= 22.