Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

short, erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

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

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 10–20 × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

elongate, dense, several–many-flowered, 2–12 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers spirally arranged.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

3–5(–10 in fruit) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

1–3 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.

7–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe shallowly cleft, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1–3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla bright blue, banner spot yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

not obviously undulate, ovoid, often secund, 0.5–1 cm, adaxial margin not constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

3–5.

2–4, ridged.

= 48.