Flora of North America species comparison

erect, branched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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;

petiole 4–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades 20–25 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

10–70 cm, rachis persistent;

flowers whorled or not.

4–15 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

7–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–9 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6 mm.

4–6 mm.

1–2.5 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.

7–9 mm;

calyx 4.5–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, becoming dark magenta, keel blunt, glabrous, banner length greater than width.

3–5 cm, silky.

± fleshy, 3 × 0.6–0.9 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

usually 5.

-ledons deciduous, petiolate.