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 2–7 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

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.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw.

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

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.