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.

1.5–10 cm, rachis longer than longest leaflet;

leaflets 11–17, well distributed on rachis, blade surfaces long-pilose.

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

(3–)5–15-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.

usually villous, sometimes appressed-pilose.

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

15–19 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.

slightly swollen or not accrescent in fruit, ruptured by (but closely investing) base of exserted pod.

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.

usually persisting on plant within calyx until after dehiscence, swollen to inflated, oblong or ovoid, 8–15 × 4.5–6.5 mm.