Flora of North America species comparison

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

ascending 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 4–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades 20–25 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

4–15 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6 mm.

2–7 mm.

1–2.5 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.

7–9 mm;

calyx 4.5–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, becoming dark magenta, keel blunt, glabrous, banner length greater than width.

2–5 cm, silky.

± fleshy, 3 × 0.6–0.9 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

usually 5.

= 48.