Flora of North America species comparison

branched.

erect or ascending, green or purplish, clustered, branched or unbranched.

usually cauline, basal leaves usually absent at flowering, if present then petioles less than 3 times as long as leaflets;

leaflet blades narrow and folded, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblanceolate, surfaces gray or silvery-pubescent.

basal and/or cauline;

stipules 2–12 mm;

petiole 1–15 cm;

leaflets (5 or)6–10, blades 10–60 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy (but not strigose).

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

(1–)2–5(–6) mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

6–8 mm;

calyx bulge 0–1 mm;

corolla blue-purple, wings 5.5–7 mm, banner equaling wings, usually thinly strigulose abaxially.

5–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, bulge or spur 0–3 mm (may be variable on plant), abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed;

corolla usually blue, sometimes purple, violet, pink, lilac, or white, banner patch yellowish to whitish, blue, brown, or absent, banner not much reflexed-recurved beyond midpoint, this less than 3 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or pubescent abaxially, wings glabrous, lower keel margins glabrous, upper margins ciliate.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

= 48.