Flora of North America species comparison

erect, clustered, branched.

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline;

stipules 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–60 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

cauline;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 10–40 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

6–30 cm;

flowers spirally arranged or appearing ± whorled proximally.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

1–6 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 4–8 mm.

5–10 mm.

2–4 mm.

12–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 10–15 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 8–10 mm;

corolla violet to blue, banner patch yellowish to white or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

7–10 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla banner and wings dark pink to magenta, drying blue-purple or whitish, banner spot yellowish, becoming darker magenta, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, upper margins glabrous.

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

often secund, 1–2 cm, coarsely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.

4–6.

= 48.