Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, 50–200 cm, medially uncinate-pubescent and patent-villous.

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, often patent or reflexed, obliquely ovate and apex acuminate or narrowly ovate and apex aristate, 3–12.5 mm, base amplexicaul;

petiole 8–50 mm;

leaflet blades narrowly ovate to ovate, elliptic, or rhombic, apex obtuse or acute, surfaces obscurely prominently reticulate-veined abaxially, uncinate-puberulent and strigose or subappressed-villous;

terminal blade (20–)40–150 × 10–50 mm, length 2–3 times width.

unbranched;

rachis densely patent uncinate-pubescent;

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

branched or unbranched;

rachis villous (often with bulbous hairs) and uncinate-puberulent, or only uncinate-puberulent;

primary bracts caducous, narrowly ovate, 4 mm.

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

10–15 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 1.5–3 mm, uncinate-puberulent, tube to 1 mm;

abaxial lobes 2 mm, lateral lobes 1 mm;

corolla lavender, 4–6 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 alternately involute and revolute, sutures equally crenate, twisted conspicuously when young;

connections central, 1/4 as broad as segments;

segments (3 or)4–7, orbiculate, broadly elliptic, or rhombic, 3–4.5 × 3–3.5 mm, rounded abaxially and adaxially, densely uncinate-pubescent;

stipe 0.5–1 mm.

= 22.

= 22.