Flora of North America species comparison

erect, clustered, branched.

ascending to erect, clustered, unbranched or branched, sometimes thick, hollow.

cauline;

stipules 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

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

cauline;

stipules 1–8 cm;

proximal petioles 3–8.5 cm, distal ones 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8(–15), blades (10–)20–50(–70) × 5–15 mm, abaxial surface long-villous, adaxial surface usually glabrous or glabrate.

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

1.8–30 cm;

flowers in 1–15 whorls.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

(1–)4–9.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 1–5 mm.

5–10 mm.

1–8 cm.

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.

11–21 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or deeply lobed, 6–12 mm, adaxial lobe 2-lobed or cleft less than 1/3 length, 6–8 mm;

corolla usually bluish purple, sometimes pink, rarely white, banner glabrous abaxially, adaxial keel glabrous or densely ciliate along most of adaxial edge.

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

3–6 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.

7–11.