Flora of North America species comparison

1–6 cm, rachis about equaling longest leaflet;

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

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.

5–9-flowered.

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

villous hairs spreading, horizontal, fine.

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.

15–19 mm.

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

somewhat accrescent and inflated, ruptured in fruit or not, entirely or partially enclosing pod.

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.

usually not disarticulated from calyx, ovoid-oblong, 8–13 × 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.