Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

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

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

1–3.5 mm.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

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

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.

5–8.

= 48.