Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

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 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

4–10 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.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

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

4–7 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

= 48.