Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending.

erect to ascending.

blades ovate to elliptic or lanceolate, base cuneate to subcordate, margins shallowly and coarsely serrate.

blades oblong to ovate, length usually less than 6 times width, base of distals clasping, margins usually entire.

± glandular, scaly-hairy;

nodes 1–6(–8)-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, often crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6(+) mm.

glandular;

nodes 1–3-flowered;

flowers not crowded;

distalmost bracts ovate, 2–3 mm.

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

ascending to spreading, longer than calyx, visible.

calyx lobes deltate, surpassing capsule, apex acute to acuminate;

corolla blue, banner white to pale lilac, base yellow with small maroon spots, wings and keel bluish, 8–15 mm, keel sparsely glandular;

banner length (0.7–)0.8–1 times wings, lobe base without folds;

wings widely obovate, notched less than 0.1 times whole length;

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

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

calyx campanulate to urceolate, lobes narrowly deltate to lanceolate, equal to capsule, apex subacute to rounded;

corolla lavender-blue, rarely pink, lobe base white, keel tip purple, 7–9 mm;

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

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

without red blotches.

2–4, oblong to oval, 2–3 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

6–8, oblong to hourglass-shaped, 1.8–2.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

= 14.