Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched distally, emerging from ground stout, red.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 6–8(–10), blades (15–)38–61 × 8–13 mm, adaxial surface green, ± puberulent to short-villous.

4–20 cm;

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

15–20 cm;

flowers not whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

3–9 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 7–14 mm (conspicuously longer than buds).

1–3.5 mm.

2–6 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.

8–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 7–9 mm;

corolla pale yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2.5–5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3–6.

= 48.