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 4–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades 20–25 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

4–15 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

1–2.5 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.

7–9 mm;

calyx 4.5–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, becoming dark magenta, keel blunt, glabrous, banner length greater than width.

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

± fleshy, 3 × 0.6–0.9 cm, densely pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

usually 5.