Flora of North America species comparison

erect, clustered, branched.

ascending or erect, branched or 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 2–7 cm;

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

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

5–10 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

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.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

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

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.