Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

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 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

1–7 mm.

2–8(–10) 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

2–3 cm, silky.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

5–7.

= 48.