Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

erect, branched distally, emerging from ground stout, red.

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 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 6–8(–10), blades (15–)38–61 × 8–13 mm, adaxial surface green, ± puberulent to short-villous.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

15–20 cm;

flowers not whorled.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

3–9 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 7–14 mm (conspicuously longer than buds).

1–7 mm.

2–6 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.

8–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 7–9 mm;

corolla pale yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous.

2–3 cm, silky.

2.5–5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

3–6.