Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

4–20 cm;

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

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) 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.

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.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

= 48.