Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, to 300 cm, pubescent or glabrescent.

erect, usually striate, 10–50 cm, obscurely uncinate-puberulent or glabrescent.

trifoliolate;

stipules usually persistent, narrowly ovate-deltate, 5–10 mm;

petiole usually 15–20 mm;

leaflet blades elliptic to ovate, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces finely spreading-villosulous to substrigose abaxially, uncinate-puberulent or glabrescent adaxially;

terminal blade 20–90 × 15–45 mm, length 1.5–4 times width.

trifoliolate;

stipules persistent, patent, subulate or narrowly deltate (from broad base), 2–3 mm;

petiole 10–35 mm;

leaflet blades linear to narrowly oblong, apex obtuse, surfaces sparsely uncinate-puberulent;

terminal blade 20–70 × 2–5 mm, length 7+ times width.

unbranched;

rachis densely patent uncinate-pubescent;

primary bracts caducous, narrowly ovate, 6–7 mm.

usually unbranched;

rachis sparsely patent uncinate-puberulent;

primary bracts usually persistent, subulate, patent, 1.5–4 mm.

persistent with calyx-remnant at top after loments drop, 5–9 mm.

15–20(–25) mm.

calyx 2–3.5 mm, uncinate-puberulent, lobes pilose, tube 1 mm;

abaxial lobes 1.5–2.5 mm, lateral lobes 1–2 mm;

corolla purple, 5–8 mm.

calyx 1 mm, sparsely puberulent, tube 0.8–1 mm;

abaxial lobes 1 mm, lateral lobes 1 mm;

corolla pink or pink-purple, 3–3.5 mm.

sutures symmetrically crenate abaxially, straight or slightly sinuate adaxially;

connections central, 1/2–2/3 as broad as segments;

segments 4–8, semiobovate, 3.5–5 × 2.5–3 mm, broadly rounded abaxially, straight or barely convex adaxially, uncinate-puberulent;

stipe 1.5–2 mm.

margins sometimes slightly involute, sutures equally crenate;

connections central, 1/5 as broad as segments;

segments 2–4, rounded, 3–3.5 × 3 mm, rounded abaxially and adaxially, inconspicuously reticulate, glabrous;

stipe 1–1.5 mm.

= 22.