Flora of North America species comparison

erect, tufted, unbranched, stout, usually hollow.

erect or ascending, green or purplish, clustered, branched or unbranched.

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.

basal and/or cauline;

stipules 2–12 mm;

petiole 1–15 cm;

leaflets (5 or)6–10, blades 10–60 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy (but not strigose).

open, 6–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

(2–)3–15 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) 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.

5–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, bulge or spur 0–3 mm (may be variable on plant), abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed;

corolla usually blue, sometimes purple, violet, pink, lilac, or white, banner patch yellowish to whitish, blue, brown, or absent, banner not much reflexed-recurved beyond midpoint, this less than 3 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or pubescent abaxially, wings glabrous, lower keel margins glabrous, upper margins ciliate.

2.5–5 × 0.7–1 cm, hairy.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–9.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.