Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, spreading, or erect, branched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 4–15 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 25–70 × 6–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

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

10–30 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

3–7 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–14 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

3–7 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

10–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 8–12 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7–11 mm;

corolla purple, banner patch white or not, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

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

3–4.5 cm, hairy.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–7, mottled brown, 4–7 mm.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.