Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, 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 5–10 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 25–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

8–11 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to whorled.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3.5–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

3–6 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.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4.5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3.5–6 mm;

corolla usually purple, sometimes pink or white, banner patch usually white, banner hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

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

2–3 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3 or 4, 5–6 mm.