Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and unbranched.

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

1–4 mm.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–5, dark with light spots.