Flora of North America species comparison

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

± prostrate, branched, weak.

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 8–12 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 3–5, blades 5–20 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface sericeous.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

open, 2–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

3–5 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.

11–13 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or notched, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla light blue to lavender, banner patch white to yellow turning violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

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

2–3 cm, shaggy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

5–8, tan, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.