Flora of North America species comparison

erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline, basal when present withered by anthesis;

stipules 5–10 mm;

petiole 4–20 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blades 40–100 × 6–24 mm, abaxial surface ± hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose.

16–60 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

8–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–12 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

2–12 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

8–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire or notched, 4–8 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 5–10 mm;

corolla blue or purple to white, banner patch usually white to yellowish turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins usually ciliate, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to middle.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw.

2–4.5 cm, ± densely hairy.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–10, mottled dark brown, 3–4 mm.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.