Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

erect, branched distally, emerging from ground stout, red.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 6–8(–10), blades (15–)38–61 × 8–13 mm, adaxial surface green, ± puberulent to short-villous.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

15–20 cm;

flowers not whorled.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

3–9 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 7–14 mm (conspicuously longer than buds).

4–10 mm.

2–6 mm.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

8–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 7–9 mm;

corolla pale yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous.

4–7 cm, hairy.

2.5–5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

3–6.

= 48.