Flora of North America species comparison

diffuse and incurved-ascending.

usually ascending, rarely prostrate.

(2.5–)4–11 cm;

leaflets 13–23, blades elliptic-oblanceolate, broadly oblong-oblanceolate, or obovate, (3–)5–17(–20) mm, apex obtuse or emarginate.

(4–)6–13 cm;

leaflets 11–17(–23), blades broadly obovate, ovate, or broadly oblanceolate, (4–)6–15 mm, apex shallowly notched or obtuse.

10–20-flowered, flowering from middle and distally, compact to loose in fruit;

axis 1.5–5.5(–7) cm in fruit.

shortly and loosely 5–12(–18)-flowered, short and compact in fruit;

axis 0.7–2(–4) cm in fruit.

2.5–6(–7.5) cm.

1.5–6 cm.

(12.5–)15–18.2 mm;

calyx (6.2–)7.5–10.5 mm, tube (4.6–)5.2–6.7 mm, lobes 1.4–3.8 mm;

corolla usually bright pink-purple with pale, striate eye, rarely white (concolorous).

(11.3–)15–19 mm;

calyx (6.5–)7–12.5 mm, tube (4.5–)5.6–8.2 mm, lobes (1.4–)2–4 mm;

corolla pink-purple.

green, sometimes stramineous or purple-mottled, almost always very strongly incurved, very obliquely ovoid-acuminate, moderately or greatly inflated, 15–30(–40) × (7–)9–15 mm, bilocular, thinly papery, semitranslucent, seeds visible, to almost leathery, opaque, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent;

beak well-defined, triangular or deltoid, 6–15 mm, unilocular.

green, red-mottled, becoming stramineous, plumply ovoid or subglobose, strongly inflated, 1–2.5 × 0.7–1.6 cm, leathery, glabrous;

beak 2.5–5 mm, bilocular.

(20–)24–28.

(12–)22–28.