Flora of North America species comparison

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

ascending, tufted, or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm, spreading-pubescent;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–30 × 1.5–8 mm, surfaces pubescent.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–18 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, solitary axillary flowers also sometimes present.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

erect, 2–8 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2.5–4 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

0.7–2 mm.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually pink to purple, rarely white, banner spot white or yellowish, keel usually glabrous, rarely with few, minute cilia on lower margins.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

1–1.5 cm, pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3–5.

= 48.