Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, often crowded near base;

petiole 2–9 cm, ascending- or appressed-pubescent;

leaflets (5 or)7, blades 10–20 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

4–20 cm;

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

18–45 cm;

flowers well spaced, usually spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

5.5–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

5–7 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.

10–13(–15) mm;

calyx 6–7 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 6 mm, adaxial lobe 3-cleft, 4 mm;

corolla bright violet-blue, banner spot creamy or yellow, keel glabrous.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3.5–5 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, usually inconspicuous, petiolate.

5–8.

6–8.

= 48.

= 36.