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 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

1–3.5 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.

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

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

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

5–8.

= 48.