Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and unbranched.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

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

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

1–4 mm.

1–4 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.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

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

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

3–5, dark with light spots.