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.

1.5–7 cm;

stipules membranous or papery, light tan or pale gray, white-pilose, margins ciliate;

leaflets 7–17, usually scattered, sometimes opposite, blades oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, 2–9(–12) × 0.8–3 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky-pilose.

1–3-flowered.

1–3(or 4)-flowered, clustered to slightly separated.

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

bract ovate to lanceolate, hispidulous.

1.2–8(–10) cm, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, pilose;

bract lanceolate, pilose.

purplish, 12–15(–16) mm.

usually pink-purple, rarely white, 7.5–12 mm.

campanulate, villous-pilose, hairs white or black;

tube 4–6 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.

somewhat accrescent and covering 1/4 of fruit, campanulate to short-cylindric, 5–8 mm, densely white- and/or black-pilose;

tube 3–5.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.5 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.

erect, sessile, oblong to lanceoloid-ovoid or ovoid, 13–22 × 4–8 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, pilosulous.

= 16.