Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

erect or ascending, 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 8–10 mm;

petiole 1–3.5 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–25 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

5–20 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

2–6 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–10 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

4–8 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.

8–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 7–9 mm, adaxial lip deeply lobed, 5–7 mm;

corolla light violet to blue, banner patch persistently yellow, banner densely hairy abaxially, lower keel margins ± ciliate, adaxial margins glabrous.

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

2.5–3.5 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

4–8, mottled brown, 4–5 mm.