Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades 8–20 × 2–9 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–18 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 20–70 × 5–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

2–7 mm.

6–8 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, ± 6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla bright blue, banner spot white or yellow, keel glabrous.

(8–)12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–13 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–12 mm;

corolla usually purple, rarely yellowish white, banner patch indistinct, banner glabrous abaxially, keel strongly upcurved, glabrous, banner and wings narrow, not covering tip.

not undulate, 1 cm, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

2–5 cm, silky.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm.

= 48.