Flora of North America species comparison

ascending.

erect.

blades: middle and distal lanceolate-deltate, margins coarsely serrate.

blades linear, length usually 6+ times width, margins entire.

± glandular;

proximal nodes 1- or 2-flowered, distals 2–4-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, sometimes crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 3–5 mm.

densely glandular;

nodes (1–)3–6-flowered;

flowers not crowded;

distalmost bracts linear, 0–2 mm.

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

ascending to spreading, sometimes reflexed, pendent and/or sigmoid in fruit, usually longer than calyx, visible.

calyx lobes deltate, surpassing capsule, apex acute;

corolla mostly white to pale lilac, banner base white with maroon dots and lines, rarely unmarked, wings and keel lavender to bluish purple, 12–18 mm, usually glabrous;

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

banner lobes and wings obovate, notched;

keel sometimes sparsely glandular-hairy;

tube longer than diam., adaxial pouch rounded, slightly gibbous, not prominent;

stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, adaxials hairy, basal spur 0(or 1).

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

corolla blue-violet to purple, banner white, cream, or pale lilac, 6–9 mm, sparsely glandular;

banner length 0.9–1 times wings, lobe base with folds bulging 0.5 mm away from throat opening at base of each lobe, wings equal to keel;

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

without red blotches.

8(–12), oblong, 2–2.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

2, ovate to oblong, sometimes compressed, 2–3 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

= 42.