Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

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

cauline, may be crowded at base on new growth;

petiole 6–15 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–60 × 7–20 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

1–4 mm.

3–7 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla usually blue-purple, rarely white, lavender, or pink, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper wing margins ciliate near claw, lower and upper keel margins ciliate near claw.

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

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

6–9.

= 48.