Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 5–10 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 25–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

8–11 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to whorled.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3.5–5 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

3–6 mm.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

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

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4.5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3.5–6 mm;

corolla usually purple, sometimes pink or white, banner patch usually white, banner hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.

3 or 4, 5–6 mm.