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.

1–6 cm, rachis about equaling longest leaflet;

leaflets 7 or 9(–13), congested on rachis, blade surfaces shaggy-pilose.

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

5–9-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.

villous hairs spreading, horizontal, fine.

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.

somewhat accrescent and inflated, ruptured in fruit or not, entirely or partially enclosing 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 not disarticulated from calyx, ovoid-oblong, 8–13 × 5 mm.