Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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).

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

1–3.5 mm.

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.

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

5–8.

= 48.