Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

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 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

1–4 mm.

2–8(–10) 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

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

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

5–7.

= 48.