Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or 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 flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

4–20 cm;

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

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

2–4 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.

8–13 mm;

calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm;

corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

±3 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8.

6–8.

= 48.