Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, clustered, unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, clustered near base;

stipules 5–6 mm;

petiole 13–15 cm;

leaflets 4–8, blades 40–80 × 10–30 mm, adaxial surface long spreading-hairy.

4–20 cm;

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

open, to 20 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

13–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–4 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.

14–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 8–10 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 6–7 mm;

corolla light blue, pink, or pale yellow, often drying straw-colored, banner patch yellow, banner ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, adaxial margin ciliate throughout.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–6 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

4–8, light brown with brown line or mottled tan, 2–4 mm.

= 48.