Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending to erect, clustered, unbranched or branched, sometimes thick, hollow.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 1–8 cm;

proximal petioles 3–8.5 cm, distal ones 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8(–15), blades (10–)20–50(–70) × 5–15 mm, abaxial surface long-villous, adaxial surface usually glabrous or glabrate.

4–20 cm;

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

1.8–30 cm;

flowers in 1–15 whorls.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

(1–)4–9.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 1–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

1–8 cm.

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.

11–21 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or deeply lobed, 6–12 mm, adaxial lobe 2-lobed or cleft less than 1/3 length, 6–8 mm;

corolla usually bluish purple, sometimes pink, rarely white, banner glabrous abaxially, adaxial keel glabrous or densely ciliate along most of adaxial edge.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–6 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

7–11.

= 48.