Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or ascending, 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;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 4–10 mm;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 30–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface pubescent or glabrous.

4–20 cm;

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

6–28 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–6 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 2–7 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.

12–15 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 2 or 3-toothed, 6–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–6 mm;

corolla bright yellow to orange-yellow, banner usually glabrous abaxially, sparsely hairy on ridge, keel upcurved, glabrous.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2–3.5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3–5, mottled tan, 6–8 mm.

= 48.