Flora of North America species comparison

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

± prostrate, branched, weak.

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;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 3–5, blades 5–20 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface sericeous.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

open, 2–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–8(–10) mm.

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.

11–13 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or notched, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla light blue to lavender, banner patch white to yellow turning violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

2–3 cm, shaggy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–7.

5–8, tan, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.

= 48.