Flora of North America species comparison

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.

1–4-flowered, clustered.

1–4 cm, axis 0.5–1 cm in fruit, long-villous;

bract ovate to broadly lanceolate, sparsely pilose.

bright pink to pink-purple, 17–24 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.

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.