Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending to erect, hollow, tufted, branched at crown.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

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

mostly basal with a few cauline proximal to inflorescences;

stipules 8–10 mm;

petiole 5–19 cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 13–90 × 10–15 mm, abaxial surface thinly strigose, adaxial surface glabrous.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

5–8(–15 in fruit) cm;

flowers spirally arranged or in 3–7 whorls.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

4–8.5 cm;

bracts caducous to tardily deciduous, 8–14 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

4–6 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.

14–19(–21) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 6–11 mm, entire or faintly notched at tip, adaxial lobe ± gibbous basally, adaxial lobe teeth with slight notch at tip, 4–8 mm;

corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes pink, rarely white, banner spot white or yellow, sometimes becoming purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins densely ciliate near claw or glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tip, adaxial margin glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tips.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

2–4.3 cm, silky-pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5.

5–8, mottled.

= 48.

= 48.