Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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;

petiole 4–9 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–50 × 10–20 mm, adaxial surface hirsute.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

15–40 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

5–8 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 4–5 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

2–5 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla deep pink to magenta, drying purplish, banner spot white becoming magenta, lower keel margins densely ciliate from middle to near claw.

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

2–4 cm, coarsely hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

3–6.