Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched.

decumbent or erect, branched just above ground, hairs less than 1 mm, not sharp or stiff.

cauline;

stipules 5–20 mm;

petiole 4–10 cm;

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

cauline, clustered at base;

stipules 7–12 mm;

petiole 5–12 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 15–40 × 5–12 mm, adaxial surface densely tomentose to woolly, hairs ± spreading.

10–70 cm, rachis persistent;

flowers whorled or not.

10–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

7–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–9 mm.

stout, 6–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–8 mm.

4–6 mm.

2–5 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.

10–15 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–8 mm, adaxial lobe deeply notched, 6–7 mm;

corolla bluish to purple, banner patch yellow turning purple to white, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

3–5 cm, silky.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

3 or 4, mottled grayish, 4–7 mm.

-ledons deciduous, petiolate.