Flora of North America species comparison

short, erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

erect or spreading, 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, basal when present withered by anthesis;

stipules 5–10 mm;

petiole 4–20 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blades 40–100 × 6–24 mm, abaxial surface ± hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

16–60 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

3–5(–10 in fruit) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

8–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–12 mm.

1–3 mm.

2–12 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.

8–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire or notched, 4–8 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 5–10 mm;

corolla blue or purple to white, banner patch usually white to yellowish turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins usually ciliate, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to middle.

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

2–4.5 cm, ± densely hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2–4, ridged.

6–10, mottled dark brown, 3–4 mm.