Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched distally.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

mostly cauline, basal normally absent;

stipules 5–7 mm;

petiole 2–14 cm (longer proximally becoming shorter distally);

leaflets 5–13, blades 10–60(–90) × 3–11(–19) mm, surfaces usually silky, rarely thinly silky appearing glabrous abaxially.

4–20 cm;

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

12–25(–42) cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–4 cm;

bracts subdeciduous, 5–8 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

2–5(–6) 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.

8–14(–18) mm;

calyx sometimes slightly saccate, abaxial lobe subentire or entire, 5 mm, adaxial lobe 2-fid, 6 mm;

corolla pale purple to bright blue, sometimes yellowish or whitish, banner spot white to yellow turning brown, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, keel moderately curved, banner silky-hairy abaxially, adaxial keel ciliate almost full length, not reaching tip.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2–3.7 cm, densely pilosulous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

(2 or)3–5(–7).

= 48.