Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

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

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 6–9 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.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

4–10 mm.

2–8(–10) 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.

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.

4–7 cm, hairy.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

5–7.

= 48.

= 48.