Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

± prostrate, branched, weak.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 3–5, blades 5–20 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface sericeous.

4–20 cm;

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

open, 2–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

3–5 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.

11–13 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or notched, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla light blue to lavender, banner patch white to yellow turning violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, shaggy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

5–8, tan, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.

= 48.