Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending.

ascending.

blades ± linear-lanceolate, obovate, or narrowly elliptic, margins subentire.

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

glabrous or sparsely and finely glandular;

proximal nodes 1-flowered, distals 3–5(–7)-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, sometimes crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6 mm.

± glandular;

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

flowers not crowded proximally, sometimes crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 3–5 mm.

ascending to reflexed, longer than calyx, visible.

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

calyx lobes ± deltate, equal to capsule, apex sharply acute to acuminate;

corolla blue, banner whitish or blue-tipped, 4–8 mm, glabrous;

banner length 0.8–1 times wings, lobe base without folds;

banner lobes and wings blue, sometimes purplish, oblong, 1(–3) mm wide;

throat barely angled to tube, tube and throat white, narrowed to lips, pouch angular, ± hidden by calyx;

stamens: filaments glabrous, basal spur 0.

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).

without red blotches.

(3 or)4, oblong, 2–2.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

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

= 14, 28, 42.