Flora of North America species comparison

1–5 cm;

stipules membranous, purplish brown or reddish brown, sparsely pilose but early glabrate, margins ciliate;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 4–6 × 1–2 mm, flat, margins revolute or folded, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hirsute.

1.5–5 cm, rachis obscurely purple, white-pilose;

stipules firm, stramineous or suffused with red-purple or green, glabrous or sparsely pilose, margins long-ciliate;

leaflets 7–13, blades lanceolate to elliptic or oblong, 3–6 × 1–2 mm, flat, margins involute, apex acute, surfaces sparsely pilose abaxially, pilose adaxially.

1–3-flowered.

1 or 2(or 3)-flowered.

0.5–5 cm, sometimes slightly exceeding leaves, sparsely pilose;

bract ovate to lanceolate, hispidulous.

1–4 cm, pubescent;

bract narrowly lanceolate, pilose.

purplish, 12–15(–16) mm.

pink-purple, 11–15(–17) mm.

campanulate, villous-pilose, hairs white or black;

tube 4–6 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.

campanulate, appressed-strigose to pilose;

tube often suffused with purple, 4–6 mm, lobes 1.2–2.2 mm.

reclining on ground at maturity, stipitate, stipe 1.5–6 mm, inflated, 20–35 × 5–8(–15) mm (usually at least 3 times longer than wide), ± bilocular, short-pilose.

spreading, sessile or subsessile, ellipsoid, 10–18(–23) × 7–8 mm, unilocular, glabrous, minutely strigose, or strigulose.

= 16.