Flora of North America species comparison

short, erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 10–20 × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

elongate, dense, several–many-flowered, 2–12 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers spirally arranged.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–5(–10 in fruit) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

1–3 mm.

4–10 mm.

7–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe shallowly cleft, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1–3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla bright blue, banner spot yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

not obviously undulate, ovoid, often secund, 0.5–1 cm, adaxial margin not constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

4–7 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2–4, ridged.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

= 48.