Flora of North America species comparison

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

decumbent, ascending, or erect, unbranched or branched.

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;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–17 mm;

petiole 2–6 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–50 × 3–7 mm, widest above middle, adaxial surface pubescent, appressed-hairy to ± silky or dull green.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

2–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to subwhorled.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

2–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2–8 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

2–6 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.

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or minutely 3-toothed, 3–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–6.5 mm;

corolla pale yellowish to lavender or violet, banner patch yellow to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

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

2–4 cm, silky.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3–6, mottled brown, 4–6 mm.

= 48.