Flora of North America species comparison

absent.

absent or shortly caulescent, then prostrate and matted.

basal;

leaflet blades 10–20 mm, surfaces with long, dense, silvery-appressed hairs.

usually basal;

leaflet blades 5–10 mm, surfaces hairy to shaggy abaxially, greenish and sometimes glabrate adaxially.

3–8 cm (not including peduncle), slightly exceeding leaves, dense.

2–8 cm, exserted beyond leaves, ± dense.

(3–)5–7.5 cm;

bracts 5 mm.

5–8(–13) cm;

bracts 5–6 mm.

1 mm.

1–2 mm.

in 9–13 whorls, 9–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe 2–3 mm, adaxial lobe 5 mm;

corolla blue-violet.

in 4–7 whorls, 6–10 mm;

corolla usually violet, rarely white, banner patch white.

7–11 mm, pubescent.

2–4.

= 48.

= 48.