Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or ascending, clustered, unbranched or branched distally, stout.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 10–15 mm;

petiole 2–25 cm;

leaflets 8–11, blades (30–)60–120(–150) × 3–15 mm, abaxial surface silky, slightly less so abaxially.

4–20 cm;

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

12–40 cm, loose to dense;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts early deciduous to persistent, 10–18 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.

(13–)15–18 mm;

calyx sometimes somewhat bulged and asymmetrical, abaxial lobe entire or notched, 7–8 mm, adaxial lobe shallowly notched, 6–7 mm;

corolla bright yellow, rarely pale purple, keel falcate, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, upper keel margins densely ciliate.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–4.5 cm, tomentose.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

4–7, pinkish brown to dull reddish brown, 6–7 mm.

= 48.