Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent to erect, clustered, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent.

cauline, clustered near base or not;

stipules 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–8(–12) cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 10–45 × 4–18 mm, surfaces hairy.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

4–40 cm, rachis usually deciduous or semideciduous;

flowers usually spirally arranged or loosely whorled.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

5–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–24 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

3–10 mm.

5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually pink to purple, rarely white, banner spot white or yellowish, keel usually glabrous, rarely with few, minute cilia on lower margins.

10–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe deeply divided, 6–8 mm;

corolla violet to lavender, patch usually yellow, rarely white, turning purple, banner usually hairy abaxially, rarely glabrous, keel usually unlobed proximally, adaxial margin usually ciliate middle to tip, abaxial margins glabrous.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

3–5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5.

4–9, mottled tan, 4–6 mm.

= 48.