Flora of North America species comparison

1–10 cm;

stipules membranous, soon ruptured, light becoming dark in age, silky-pilose, margins ciliate;

leaflets 5–17, scattered or congested, blades ovate-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 3–15 × 2–6 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces pilose or sericeous.

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.

(3–)5–18-flowered, subcapitate or slightly elongate.

1 or 2(or 3)-flowered.

1–13 cm, axis 0.5–3(–4) cm in fruit, appressed-pilose to villous-hirsute;

bract ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, margins involute, shaggy-pilose.

1–4 cm, pubescent;

bract narrowly lanceolate, pilose.

bright pink-purple or bluish purple, 15–19(–20) mm.

pink-purple, 11–15(–17) mm.

deeply campanulate, villous to shaggy-villous, hairs mixed blackish and white, appearing gray, 2 mm;

tube 5.5–7 mm, slightly swollen to strongly inflated, variably accrescent, ruptured by fruit or not, lobes 2–4.5 mm.

campanulate, appressed-strigose to pilose;

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

enclosed in or exserted from calyx, erect, sessile or short-stipitate, ovoid to narrowly oblong, turgid to inflated, 6–15(–20) × 4–6.5 mm, bilocular, papery to nearly membranous, white- or black-villous.

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

= 16.