Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

ascending or erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

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

cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.3–3.3 cm;

leaflets (3 or)4–7, blades 7–20(–24) × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

dense, several-flowered, 1–3 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

(1–)3–6 cm;

bracts persistent, 3–4 mm.

4–10 mm.

0.8–2 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.

5–9 mm;

calyx 7–8 mm, adaxial lobe more than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla usually blue with pale banner patch, sometimes entirely white, keel glabrous.

4–7 cm, hairy.

not obviously undulate, 0.9–1.3 cm, sparsely or densely pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent on young plants, becoming dry and deciduous, sessile.

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

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= 48.