Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

ascending or erect, branched or 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 2–8.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7(–9), blades 10–40 × 1–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

4–40 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged distally.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

2–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–12 mm.

1–7 mm.

2.5–7 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.

6–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, lobes ± equal, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, lavender, pink, white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

2–3 cm, silky.

2–4 × 0.4–0.7 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

4–12.

= 48.