Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending-erect, 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 5–13 mm;

petiole 1–5 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–60 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or with scattered hairs.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

open, 6–34 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 3–7 mm.

1–4 mm.

2–4 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.

8–10(–12) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–9 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–8 mm;

corolla usually pale yellow to orange-yellow, sometimes white, banner patch orange to yellow, keel tip pale lavender, banner usually hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

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

2.5–4 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

1–4, speckled tan and brown, 4.5–5.5 mm.