Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, densely tufted, unbranched distally.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

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

basal and cauline, persisting until after flowering;

stipules 4–8 mm;

proximal petioles 4–20 cm, distal ones 1.5–5 cm;

leaflets 6–15, blades white to greenish, (20–)25–70 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface hairy-strigulose or sericeous, adaxial surface strigulose-silky to sparsely hairy or glabrous.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

6–20 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

2.5–6 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 5–9 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

(2–)4–10 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.

8–12 mm;

calyx asymmetrical but not spurred, silky, abaxial lobe entire, 4–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-fid, 3–5 mm;

corolla pale sulfur yellow, blue, or white, banner glabrous or sparsely hairy abaxially (pubescence extending above calyx as a line), upper keel margins usually ciliate most of length, sometimes glabrous.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, pilose to silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5.

4 or 5, pinkish brown.

= 48.