Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

prostrate to decumbent, branched, not weak, from woody base.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, often appearing clustered near base first year;

stipules 7–16 mm;

petiole 2–10 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 15–35 × 3–9 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

4–20 cm;

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

± open, 6–16 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

4–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–7 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

4–12 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.

10–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed or entire, 8–9 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7–8 mm;

corolla blue to lilac, white, yellow, rose, or purple (sometimes on same plant), banner patch whitish or yellow, or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–4 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

7–12.

= 48.