Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, clustered, unbranched or branched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, yellow-green;

stipules 12–30 mm;

proximal petioles 5–10 cm, distal ones 2 cm;

leaflets 4–9, blades 30–110 × 5–11 mm, adaxial surface villous, hairs greater than 1 mm.

4–20 cm;

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

2–6 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers spirally arranged or whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–6 cm;

bracts persistent, 7–15 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

2–5 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 6–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–8 mm;

corolla light blue, banner patch yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin sparsely ciliate ± middle to tip.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2.5–4 cm, woolly.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

4–6, beige, mottled dark, 3–4 mm.

= 48.