Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

ascending to erect, hollow, tufted, branched at crown.

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.

mostly basal with a few cauline proximal to inflorescences;

stipules 8–10 mm;

petiole 5–19 cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 13–90 × 10–15 mm, abaxial surface thinly strigose, adaxial surface glabrous.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

5–8(–15 in fruit) cm;

flowers spirally arranged or in 3–7 whorls.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

4–8.5 cm;

bracts caducous to tardily deciduous, 8–14 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

4–6 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.

14–19(–21) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 6–11 mm, entire or faintly notched at tip, adaxial lobe ± gibbous basally, adaxial lobe teeth with slight notch at tip, 4–8 mm;

corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes pink, rarely white, banner spot white or yellow, sometimes becoming purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins densely ciliate near claw or glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tip, adaxial margin glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tips.

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

2–4.3 cm, silky-pilose.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

5–8, mottled.

= 48.