Flora of North America species comparison

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

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

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, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

2–8(–10) mm.

1–3.5 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.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

5–7.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

= 48.