Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

erect, unbranched or branched distally, hollow.

cauline;

petiole 3–7 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–50 × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

basal and cauline, green;

stipules 5–20 mm;

basal petioles 10–25 cm, cauline 1–4 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–80(–130) × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface strigose, hairs less than 1 mm.

10–25 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

5–28 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers dense.

5–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

4–17 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–10 mm.

4–5 mm.

1–3 mm.

10–12 mm;

calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, upper keel margins with few cilia near apex, banner as wide as long or wider.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm;

corolla violet to dark blue, banner patch orange to red, banner usually glabrous abaxially, rarely hairy, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin densely ciliate.

3–6 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

1.5–2 cm, hairy to woolly.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 3–4 mm.