Flora of North America species comparison

erect, tufted, unbranched, stout, usually hollow.

acaulescent or prostrate to ± erect, unbranched or branched.

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, sometimes cauline present;

stipules 3–25 mm;

petiole 2–13 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 5–40 × 3–7 mm, surfaces pubescent.

open, 6–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

dense, 3–20 cm, not exceeding to exserted beyond leaves;

flowers whorled, usually crowded.

3–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm.

2–13 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 4–15 mm.

(2–)3–15 mm.

0.4–3 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.

6–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–7 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 3–7 mm;

corolla pink, violet, or blue, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

2.5–5 × 0.7–1 cm, hairy.

1–2 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–9.

2–6, ± mottled tan or green to brown, 2–4 mm.