Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending, very short, tufted or spreading, branched.

ascending-erect, clustered, branched.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

leaflets 7–11, blades 10–30 × 4–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–18 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 20–70 × 5–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

1–4 mm.

2–7 mm.

4.5–7 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla dark blue-purple or whitish with blue tip, banner spot white becoming yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

(8–)12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–13 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–12 mm;

corolla usually purple, rarely yellowish white, banner patch indistinct, banner glabrous abaxially, keel strongly upcurved, glabrous, banner and wings narrow, not covering tip.

undulate, 1.5–2 cm, not constricted between seeds, ciliate with long, dense hairs, sides with short, inflated hairs becoming scaly on drying.

2–5 cm, silky.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm.

= 48.