Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and unbranched.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

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

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

1–4 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.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5.

3–5, dark with light spots.

= 48.