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 (1–)3–7 cm;

leaflets (5–)7–11, blades (7–)15–30(–45) × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or pubescent, at least marginally.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

10–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

2–4 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–5 mm, shorter than buds.

0.3–1.5 mm.

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.

10–12(–13) mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely pinkish, drying darker, banner spot whitish becoming magenta, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, upper margins often ciliate near claw.

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

1–2 cm, coarsely pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2, smooth.

4 or 5.