Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or 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 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

1–7 mm.

0.7–2 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.

5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually pink to purple, rarely white, banner spot white or yellowish, keel usually glabrous, rarely with few, minute cilia on lower margins.

2–3 cm, silky.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

3–5.

= 48.