Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, branched or 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;

petiole 4–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades 20–25 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–15 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6 mm.

1–4 mm.

1–2.5 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.

7–9 mm;

calyx 4.5–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, becoming dark magenta, keel blunt, glabrous, banner length greater than width.

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

± fleshy, 3 × 0.6–0.9 cm, densely pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

usually 5.