Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 5–10 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 25–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

4–20 cm;

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

8–11 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3.5–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

3–6 mm.

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.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4.5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3.5–6 mm;

corolla usually purple, sometimes pink or white, banner patch usually white, banner hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3 or 4, 5–6 mm.

= 48.