Flora of North America species comparison

± prostrate or ascending, branched.

± prostrate, branched, weak.

basal (clustered near base);

stipules 4–5 mm;

petiole 2–4.5 cm;

leaflets 6–8, blades 10–20 × 2–4 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 3–5, blades 5–20 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface sericeous.

2–7 cm;

flowers in few whorls, widely separated.

open, 2–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

5–10 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 4–5 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–5 mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe obscurely 3-toothed, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 4–5 mm;

corolla ± violet, banner patch yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

11–13 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or notched, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla light blue to lavender, banner patch white to yellow turning violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

2–3 cm, pilose.

2–3 cm, shaggy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

1 or 2.

5–8, tan, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.