Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to erect, usually much branched, 1.5–7 dm.

usually branched distally, (1.7–)2.5–7 dm.

3–12(–14) cm;

stipules pale brown, sometimes streaked, 2–10 mm;

leaflets 5–15, blades usually oblong to elliptic, lanceolate-oblong, or ovate, rarely linear, 7–40 × 2–19 mm, veins obscure, surfaces strigose abaxially, strigose or glabrous adaxially.

3–12 cm;

stipules usually pale brown, sometimes brown-streaked;

leaflets 5–15, blades 7–35 × 2–19 mm, surfaces pubescent abaxially, pubescent or glabrous adaxially.

5–45-flowered, axis 5–28.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–4 mm.

13–45-flowered, elongated, 8–23 cm.

2.8–15 cm.

0.8–4.5 mm.

ascending at anthesis;

calyx 4.5–8 mm;

tube 2–3.5 mm, strigose;

lobes subulate, 2–6 mm, subequal to markedly unequal;

corolla usually red-purple, pink, magenta, or purple, rarely white, 10–22(–26) mm;

wing auricles distinct, blunt, shorter than claw.

corolla usually pink to magenta (fading pink to lavender) or purple, rarely white, 10–19 mm.

segments 2–8, 4.5–9 × 4–6.2 mm, margins prickly or not, not winged to moderately winged, prominently reticulate, usually crisp-puberulent to minutely strigose, rarely glabrous.

segments 2–5, rarely black-pigmented, 6.5–9 × 5.4–6.2 mm.

= 16.