Flora of North America species comparison

erect, tufted, unbranched, stout, usually hollow.

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

basal and cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–40 mm;

petiole 3–45 cm, basal long-petiolate and forming a basal tuft, cauline petioles shorter distally;

leaflets (5 or)6–12(–17), blades (10–)30–150 × 5–25 mm, adaxial surface hairy or glabrous.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

open, 6–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

(2–)3–15 mm.

4–10 mm.

9–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire;

corolla violet to lavender, pink, or white, banner patch yellow to white, sometimes turning red-purple, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, ciliate, or ciliolate.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

2.5–5 × 0.7–1 cm, hairy.

4–7 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–9.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

= 48.