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.

6–10 cm;

stipules persistent, well separated, firm, rigid, usually purplish or becoming purplish, free ends long-attenuate, pilose abaxially, or glabrate on free ends, margins scarious and ciliate, with clavate processes;

leaflets 13–17, blades lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 6–16(–18) × 2–3.5 mm, base rounded, margins involute, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose to pilose abaxially, pilose to glabrate adaxially.

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

5–8-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.

7–11 cm, strigose, hairs spreading, appressed;

bract lanceolate, pilose, margins ciliate, with clavate processes.

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

blue or purplish, 16–18(–20) 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.

purplish, short-cylindric to campanulate, minutely strigulose, hairs black and white;

tube 5.8–7 mm, lobes 1.5–2.2 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.

held aloft at maturity, spreading, sessile, cylindric, 12–17 × 5–7 mm (to 3 times longer than wide), bilocular or sub-bilocular, pilose, hairs black or black and white.

= 80.