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 3–7 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–50 × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

10–25 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

5–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

1–7 mm.

4–5 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.

10–12 mm;

calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, upper keel margins with few cilia near apex, banner as wide as long or wider.

2–3 cm, silky.

3–6 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

6–8.