Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending.

decumbent.

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

blades lanceolate to ovate, margins crenate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial subglabrous or finely gray-hairy.

± glandular, scaly-hairy;

nodes 1–6(–8)-flowered;

flowers not crowded proximally, often crowded distally;

distalmost bracts linear, 5–6(+) mm.

sparsely and finely glandular;

whorl 1 per branch;

nodes (1–)3–10-flowered;

flowers crowded;

distalmost bracts ovate, 5–9 mm.

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

ascending to spreading, shorter than calyx, not or scarcely 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 lobes oblong to ovate, surpassing capsule, apex rounded;

corolla usually whitish, 14–22 mm, wings sparsely and finely glandular, not hairy;

banner length 0.1–0.3(–0.4) times wings, lobe base without folds, reflexed portion 1 mm, shorter than basal portion, brownish, not red-banded;

stamens: filaments hairy, basal spur 0.

without red blotches.

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

8–16, oblong to oval, 2–2.5 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.

= 14.

= 14.