Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

decumbent, spreading, many branched.

cauline and basal;

stipules 4–9 mm;

petiole 2–16 cm;

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

basal, clustered;

stipules 20–150 mm;

petiole 2.5–10 cm;

leaflet 1, blades 40–120 × 18–33 mm, adaxial surface densely sericeous or strigulose.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

8–30 cm;

flowers whorled.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

3–4 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

1–7 mm.

1–4 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.

11–15 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–10 mm, adaxial lobe 3-fid with 2 linear laterals, 4–8 mm;

corolla light to deep blue, limb centrally white at base, banner spot white to cream, glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous.

2–3 cm, silky.

3–5 cm, appressed villous to sericeous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

4–7, gray mottled black, 4 mm.