Flora of North America species comparison

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

short-decumbent, clustered, 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, clustered near base;

stipules 8–10 mm;

petiole (5–)8–13 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades oblanceolate, 15–50 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface silky-hairy, adaxial surface glabrous.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

5–15 cm;

flowers not whorled.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm.

2–7 mm.

3–5 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 3.5–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–5 mm;

corolla violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

2–5 cm, silky.

3–4.5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

5 or 6, brown, 6–7 mm.

= 48.