Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

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

cauline, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

4–10 mm.

1–3.5 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.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

4–7 cm, hairy.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

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

2, wrinkled or ridged.

= 48.