Flora of North America species comparison

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–18 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 20–70 × 5–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

2–7 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

(8–)12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–13 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–12 mm;

corolla usually purple, rarely yellowish white, banner patch indistinct, banner glabrous abaxially, keel strongly upcurved, glabrous, banner and wings narrow, not covering tip.

5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually pink to purple, rarely white, banner spot white or yellowish, keel usually glabrous, rarely with few, minute cilia on lower margins.

2–5 cm, silky.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm.

3–5.

= 48.

= 48.