Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

± prostrate, branched.

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 less than 6 mm;

petiole 6–8(–14) cm;

leaflets 6 or 7, blades 10–20 × 8–10 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

4–20 cm;

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

dense, 3–5 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

1.5–4 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–3 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

1–4 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.

8–12 mm, in 5–12 whorls;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 4–5 mm;

corolla pink, banner patch light yellow, keel dark rose, white at claw, banner glabrous abaxially, strongly reflexed, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

1.5–2.5 cm, shaggy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3–5, tan.

= 48.