Flora of North America species comparison

very short, tufted, branched.

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

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 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

0.3–1.5 mm.

2–8(–10) 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

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

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

5–7.

= 48.