Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline and basal;

stipules 4–9 mm;

petiole 2–16 cm;

leaflets 7–10(–13), blades 20–70 × 3–15 mm, adaxial surface strigose.

cauline;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 10–40 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

6–30 cm;

flowers spirally arranged or appearing ± whorled proximally.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

1–6 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 4–8 mm.

1–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

8–14 mm;

calyx spur distinct, 1–3 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 2.5–5 mm, 1–3 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–4 mm;

corolla blue, purple, pink, white, or yellowish, banner patch white, yellowish, or absent, banner hairy abaxially, wings with dense hair patch outside near tip, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

7–10 mm;

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

corolla banner and wings dark pink to magenta, drying blue-purple or whitish, banner spot yellowish, becoming darker magenta, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, upper margins glabrous.

2–3 cm, silky.

often secund, 1–2 cm, coarsely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

4–6.

= 48.