Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, unbranched or branched distally, hollow.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

basal and cauline, green;

stipules 5–20 mm;

basal petioles 10–25 cm, cauline 1–4 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–80(–130) × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface strigose, hairs less than 1 mm.

4–20 cm;

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

5–28 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers dense.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

4–17 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–10 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

1–3 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, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm;

corolla violet to dark blue, banner patch orange to red, banner usually glabrous abaxially, rarely hairy, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin densely ciliate.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

1.5–2 cm, hairy to woolly.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 3–4 mm.

= 48.