Flora of North America species comparison

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

very short, densely tufted, branched.

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, densely tufted or crowded near base;

free blades of stipules reduced, 1 mm;

petiole 0.4–1.5 cm;

leaflets (3 or)5, blades 2–7 × 1–1.5 mm, adaxial surface villous.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

flowers solitary or paired, axillary.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

1.5–4 mm;

bracts persistent, 1 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

1 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.

4–5 mm;

calyx 2.5–3 mm, abaxial lobe shallowly cleft, 2–2.5 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 0.5–1 mm;

corolla banner white, wings and keel purplish, keel glabrous.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

0.6–1 cm, pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

1 or 2.