Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

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 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–60 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

5–10 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 bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 10–15 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 8–10 mm;

corolla violet to blue, banner patch yellowish to white or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

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

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.