Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched from just above ground.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, clustered at base, ± fleshy;

stipules 15–20 mm;

petiole 2–15 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades widely oblanceolate, 25–70 × 10–30 mm, surfaces silver-silky.

4–20 cm;

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

1–1.5 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

1–2.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–7 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

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.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe obscurely 2-toothed, 4–6 mm;

corolla yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

3–5.

= 48.