Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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.

cauline;

petiole 2–8.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7(–9), blades 10–40 × 1–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

4–40 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged distally.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

2–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–12 mm.

2–8(–10) mm.

2.5–7 mm.

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.

6–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, lobes ± equal, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, lavender, pink, white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

2–4 × 0.4–0.7 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–7.

4–12.

= 48.

= 48.