Flora of North America species comparison

short, erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–8 cm;

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

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

3–5(–10 in fruit) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

1–3 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

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.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw.

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

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2–4, ridged.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.