Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and 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.

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

3–4.5 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.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

2–3 cm, silky.

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

3–5, dark with light spots.