Flora of North America species comparison

0.5–5 cm;

stipules membranous, whitish or with light tan or grayish herbaceous tips, 5–14 mm, usually ± pilose, rarely glabrous abaxially, margins often long-ciliate, with clavate processes;

leaflets 5–15, blades elliptic to ovate, 2–10 × 1–2(–3) mm, flat, margins involute but not falcate, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces silky- or silvery-canescent, villous, strigose, or loosely pilose, rarely glabrous.

1–5 cm;

stipules membranous, purplish brown or reddish brown, sparsely pilose but early glabrate, margins ciliate;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 4–6 × 1–2 mm, flat, margins revolute or folded, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hirsute.

1 or 2(–5)-flowered.

1–3-flowered.

0.3–4[–5] cm, pubescent;

bract narrowly lanceolate to linear, pilose.

0.5–5 cm, sometimes slightly exceeding leaves, sparsely pilose;

bract ovate to lanceolate, hispidulous.

bright pink-purple or blue-purple to white, 12–20 mm.

purplish, 12–15(–16) mm.

campanulate, usually black-pilose, sometimes villous, strigose, or glabrous;

tube 3–6 mm, lobes 1.8–4 mm.

campanulate, villous-pilose, hairs white or black;

tube 4–6 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.

spreading, subsessile to short-stipitate or stipitate, stipe 1.5–5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, 18–38(–40) × 8–11 mm, unilocular or subunilocular, usually strigulose to pilose or villous, rarely glabrous.

reclining on ground at maturity, stipitate, stipe 1.5–6 mm, inflated, 20–35 × 5–8(–15) mm (usually at least 3 times longer than wide), ± bilocular, short-pilose.