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, some clustered at base;

stipules 6–15 mm;

petiole 3–20 cm;

leaflets 6–11, blades 30–90 × 6–19 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

4–20 cm;

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

8–30 cm;

flowers dense, spiciform.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–8 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 3–12 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

stout, 1–2 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 mm;

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

corolla lavender or purple to yellowish, often turning brown, banner patch yellow to brown, banner not much reflexed-recurved beyond midpoint, this less than 3 mm proximal to apex, banner densely hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate throughout.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2–3.6 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3–6, mottled gray-tan.

= 48.

= 24, 48.