Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, clustered, unbranched.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

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

cauline, clustered near base;

stipules 5–6 mm;

petiole 13–15 cm;

leaflets 4–8, blades 40–80 × 10–30 mm, adaxial surface long spreading-hairy.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

open, to 20 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

13–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm.

1–4 mm.

3–6 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.

14–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 8–10 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 6–7 mm;

corolla light blue, pink, or pale yellow, often drying straw-colored, banner patch yellow, banner ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, adaxial margin ciliate throughout.

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

3–6 cm, silky.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

4–8, light brown with brown line or mottled tan, 2–4 mm.