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.

1.5–7 cm;

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

leaflets 7–17, usually scattered, sometimes opposite, blades oblong to elliptic or lanceolate, 2–9(–12) × 0.8–3 mm, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky-pilose.

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

1–3(or 4)-flowered, clustered to slightly separated.

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.

1.2–8(–10) cm, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, pilose;

bract lanceolate, pilose.

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

usually pink-purple, rarely white, 7.5–12 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 covering 1/4 of fruit, campanulate to short-cylindric, 5–8 mm, densely white- and/or black-pilose;

tube 3–5.5 mm, lobes 1.5–2.5 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.

erect, sessile, oblong to lanceoloid-ovoid or ovoid, 13–22 × 4–8 mm, bilocular or sub-bilocular, pilosulous.

= 16.