Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to matted, clustered, usually unbranched.

usually basal;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 5–12 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blades 10–35 × 4–7 mm, adaxial surface hairs ± spreading, dense, tomentose to woolly.

10–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5(–10) mm.

2–4 mm.

fragrant, 10–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–12 mm, adaxial lobe deeply 2-toothed, 5–10 mm;

corolla deep purple to light blue, banner patch yellow turning reddish, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, lower keel margins usually ciliate near base, adaxial margin densely hairy.

2–3.5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

4–6, mottled gray-brown with dark lateral line, 3–4 mm.