Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending.

erect to ascending.

blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, margins entire or serrate.

blades oblong to lanceolate, margins entire or weakly serrate.

glandular;

nodes 1–5-flowered;

flowers crowded or not;

distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.

glabrous or glandular to scaly-hairy;

nodes 1–6(–8)-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, sometimes crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6(+) mm.

ascending to spreading, proximalmost sometimes longer than calyx, distalmost equal to or shorter than calyx, visible or not.

ascending to reflexed, usually longer than calyx, visible, glandular abaxially and adaxially.

calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate, surpassing capsule, apex subacute to rounded;

corolla ± uniformly dark purple, rarely pale pinkish purple, 10–15 mm, sparsely glandular;

banner length 0.5 times wings, base with 2-crested, crescent-shaped folds extending 1–1.5 mm from throat opening;

stamens: filaments glabrous, adaxials sometimes hairy, basal spur 0.

calyx lobes deltate, surpassing capsule, apex acuminate;

corolla violet, banner pale violet to white, base yellow with dark orange spot, wings and keel violet, 10–15 mm, keel glabrous or sparsely glandular;

banner length 0.6–0.7(–0.8) times wings, lobe base without folds;

wings narrowly obcordate, notched 0.2 times whole length;

throat slightly angled to tube, longer than diam., pouch arched, slightly expanded;

stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0.

without red blotches.

2–4, oval, 2–3 mm, margins thin, not inrolled.

6–12, oblong to oval, 1–1.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

= 14.

= 14.