Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, usually branched, sometimes 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, often crowded near base;

petiole 2–9 cm, ascending- or appressed-pubescent;

leaflets (5 or)7, blades 10–20 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

18–45 cm;

flowers well spaced, usually spirally arranged.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

5.5–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

5–7 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.

10–13(–15) mm;

calyx 6–7 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 6 mm, adaxial lobe 3-cleft, 4 mm;

corolla bright violet-blue, banner spot creamy or yellow, keel glabrous.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

3.5–5 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, usually inconspicuous, petiolate.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

6–8.

= 36.