Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

ascending or erect, clustered, branched, short-silky.

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;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–17 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 6–8, blades 20–80 × 2–7 mm, widest below middle, adaxial surface pubescent, hairs densely silver-silky to woolly.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

5–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

2–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–11 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–8 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 5–7 mm;

corolla lavender to blue, banner patch pale yellowish, banner usually glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

2–3 cm, silky.

2–3 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

4–6, mottled olive brown, 5–6 mm.