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.

basal and cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.5–4.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7, blades 7–22 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface softly villous.

16–60 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

well exserted, several–many-flowered, 3–7 cm;

flowers crowded, whorled proximally, becoming spirally arranged distally.

8–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–12 mm.

2–5.5 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–7 mm.

2–12 mm.

2–4 mm.

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.

8–10 mm;

calyx 5–8 mm, lobes unequal, adaxial lobe less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla blue or whitish and blue-tipped, keel glabrous.

2–4.5 cm, ± densely hairy.

not obviously undulate, 1–1.3 cm, softly villous-pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent or deciduous, disclike, sessile, leaving a circular scar.

6–10, mottled dark brown, 3–4 mm.

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