Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

petiole 4–9 cm;

leaflets usually 9, blades 10–40 × 4–9 mm, adaxial surface villous to pilose.

4–20 cm;

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

10–40 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 8–9 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

6–8 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.

11–17 mm;

calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

3–5 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

5–10.

= 48.