Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

decumbent or erect, branched just above ground, hairs less than 1 mm, not sharp or stiff.

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, clustered at base;

stipules 7–12 mm;

petiole 5–12 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 15–40 × 5–12 mm, adaxial surface densely tomentose to woolly, hairs ± spreading.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

10–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

stout, 6–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–8 mm.

1–7 mm.

2–5 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.

10–15 mm;

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

corolla bluish to purple, banner patch yellow turning purple to white, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

2–3 cm, silky.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

3 or 4, mottled grayish, 4–7 mm.