Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to matted, clustered, usually unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or 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.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

10–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

3–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5(–10) mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–3.5 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.

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

2–3.5 cm, hairy.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

5–8.

= 48.