Flora of North America species comparison

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

basally branched or 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.

basal;

petiole 2–12 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades bright green, 8–24 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

hollow, 6–15 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm, tips sparsely ciliate.

1–4 mm.

3–7 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.

7–10 mm;

calyx lobes sometimes ciliate at tips, abaxial lobe entire, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe rounded or shallowly 2-toothed, 3–3.5 mm;

corolla deep blue-purple, banner spot white or yellow becoming magenta, keel glabrous.

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

1.5–2.5 cm, adaxial suture undulate and ciliate with long dense hairs, sides with a few short hairs becoming scaly on drying.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

3–5, dark with light spots.

2–6, ridged.