Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

erect or ascending, very short, tufted or spreading, branched.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

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

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

leaflets 7–11, blades 10–30 × 4–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

4–10 mm.

1–4 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.

4.5–7 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla dark blue-purple or whitish with blue tip, banner spot white becoming yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

4–7 cm, hairy.

undulate, 1.5–2 cm, not constricted between seeds, ciliate with long, dense hairs, sides with short, inflated hairs becoming scaly on drying.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

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

2, wrinkled.

= 48.