Flora of North America species comparison

erect, tufted, unbranched, stout, usually hollow.

prostrate to matted, clustered, usually 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.

usually basal;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 5–12 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blades 10–35 × 4–7 mm, adaxial surface hairs ± spreading, dense, tomentose to woolly.

open, 6–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

10–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm.

3–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5(–10) mm.

(2–)3–15 mm.

2–4 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.

fragrant, 10–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–12 mm, adaxial lobe deeply 2-toothed, 5–10 mm;

corolla deep purple to light blue, banner patch yellow turning reddish, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, lower keel margins usually ciliate near base, adaxial margin densely hairy.

2.5–5 × 0.7–1 cm, hairy.

2–3.5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–9.

4–6, mottled gray-brown with dark lateral line, 3–4 mm.