Flora of North America species comparison

broadly winged, climbing, basally branched 1–3 times, 8–30 dm.

angled, sprawling or climbing, sometimes branched at flowering nodes, 2–6 dm.

2–6 cm, rachises winged;

tendrils well developed;

stipules lanceolate, 10–25 × 2–6 mm, smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 2, blades ovate or obovate, 15–50 × 10–40 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pustulose-hirsute.

5–9 cm;

tendrils usually well developed;

stipules lanceolate to linear, 8–12 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 4–8, scattered, blades usually linear, rarely lanceolate, 30–80 × 1–20 mm, surfaces glabrous.

2–4-flowered, 10–20 cm.

5–8-flowered, 10–18 cm.

20–25 mm;

calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes linear-triangular to lanceolate, equal to tube;

corolla white, pink, purple, violet, or blue, banner erect, blade much longer than claw, wings longer than keel;

ovary densely pustulose-hirsute, style rotated 90° from ovary axis.

8–15 mm;

calyx lobes subequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube;

corolla white to blue-orchid, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

50–70 × 8–15 mm.

30–50 × 4–8 mm.

= 14.

= 14.