Flora of North America species comparison

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

ascending or erect, branched near middle.

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;

petioles 2–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades bright green, 20–50 × 5–15 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

dense, 5–10 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

8–18 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 3–5 mm.

1–7 mm.

1.5–4 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.

13–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 4–6 mm;

corolla banner yellow, wings usually pink, rarely white, keel white, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

2–3 cm, silky.

2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

usually 5.