Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline, often crowded near base;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets 5 or 6, blades 10–25 × 4–15 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

4–20 cm;

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

6–12 cm;

flowers crowded or spaced, spirally arranged, crowded on young growth.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

3–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–3 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

3–7 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.

9–12 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, abaxial lobe 3-lobed, 3–4 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–2.5 mm, hairs becoming yellowish gray or brown on dried material;

corolla pale blue-violet, banner spot white, keel glabrous, wings inflated.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2.5–3.5 cm, yellowish gray- or brown-villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, petiolate.

5–8.

4 or 5.

= 48.

= 36.