Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

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

cauline;

petiole 4–9 cm;

leaflets usually 9, blades 10–40 × 4–9 mm, adaxial surface villous to pilose.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

10–40 cm;

flowers whorled.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 8–9 mm.

4–10 mm.

6–8 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.

11–17 mm;

calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

4–7 cm, hairy.

3–5 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

5–10.

= 48.