Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

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

cauline;

stipules 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

2–8(–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.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5.

5–7.

= 48.

= 48.