Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and 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.

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

1–4 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.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

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

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

3–5, dark with light spots.