Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to matted, clustered, usually unbranched.

spreading-ascending, clustered, robust, 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;

stipules abortive or early deciduous (occurring only on very new growth), 9–15 mm;

petiole 2–3.5 cm;

leaflet 1, blades 30–70 × 15–25 mm, surfaces short-appressed, velvety to satiny sericeous.

10–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

4–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5(–10) mm.

2.5–6.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

4–6 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.

11–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ovate, 2-lobed, 8–12 mm, adaxial lobe lanceolate, entire or obscurely 3-lobed, 5–10 mm;

corolla pink or rose to blue, banner spot maroon to dark blue, banner glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous.

2–3.5 cm, hairy.

1.5–2.5 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

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

2–4.