Flora of North America species comparison

erect, tufted, unbranched, stout, usually hollow.

ascending or erect, 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.

cauline;

petiole 2–8.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7(–9), blades 10–40 × 1–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

open, 6–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

4–40 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged distally.

3–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–11 mm.

2–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–12 mm.

(2–)3–15 mm.

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.

6–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, lobes ± equal, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, lavender, pink, white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

2.5–5 × 0.7–1 cm, hairy.

2–4 × 0.4–0.7 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

3–9.

4–12.

= 48.