Flora of North America species comparison

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

decumbent, ascending, or erect, branched, dark brown to red, usually hollow.

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;

stipules 7–15 mm;

petiole 3–5 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 20–40 × 4–9 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

open, 15–50 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

3–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

2–7 mm.

5–10 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.

12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or ± 3-toothed, 7–9 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7–8 mm;

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

2–5 cm, silky.

dark, 3–7 cm, sparsely hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

7 or 8, mottled brown with black line, 3–4 mm.

= 48.