Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, branched.

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 3–15 mm;

petiole 2–6 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–60 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

cauline;

stipules 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

open, 2–23 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

1–8.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2–10 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

1.5–5 mm.

2–8(–10) mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 2 or 3-toothed, 3–8 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–7 mm;

corolla usually light blue or lavender to purple, rarely white, banner patch white turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

2–4.5 cm, silky.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 4–6 mm.

5–7.

= 48.