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 flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–4 mm.

2–4 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.

8–13 mm;

calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm;

corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

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

±3 cm, pubescent.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled.

6–8.