Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched.

cauline;

stipules 5–20 mm;

petiole 4–10 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 5–50 × 4–7 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent, silver-hairy.

10–70 cm, rachis persistent;

flowers whorled or not.

7–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–9 mm.

4–6 mm.

with distinctive sweet smell, 10–13 mm;

calyx 6–8 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla violet to lavender, banner patch bright yellow, turning purple, banner usually hairy abaxially, keel usually ± lobed proximally, abaxial margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

3–5 cm, silky.

5–8, mottled yellow-brown with lateral lines.

-ledons deciduous, petiolate.