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 cm;

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

leaflets 5–9, opposite or scattered, blades lanceolate to elliptic, oblong, or oblanceolate, 3–13 × 1–4 mm, apex acute, surfaces silky-pilose.

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

1–4-flowered, clustered.

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, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, long-villous;

bract ovate to broadly lanceolate, sparsely pilose.

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

bright pink to pink-purple, 17–24 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 or already tumescent at anthesis, 7–13(–20) mm, densely white-pilose;

tube 5.5–10 mm 8–18 mm in fruit, becoming bladdery-inflated and investing fruit, lobes 2–3 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.

included within swollen calyx, erect or pendulous, stipitate, stipe 0.5–1.5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, subunilocular, papery, not rigid at maturity, short-villous.