Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent, spreading, many branched.

cauline;

petiole (1–)3–7 cm;

leaflets (5–)7–11, blades (7–)15–30(–45) × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or pubescent, at least marginally.

basal, clustered;

stipules 20–150 mm;

petiole 2.5–10 cm;

leaflet 1, blades 40–120 × 18–33 mm, adaxial surface densely sericeous or strigulose.

10–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

8–30 cm;

flowers whorled.

2–4 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–5 mm, shorter than buds.

3–4 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

2–5 mm.

1–4 mm.

10–12(–13) mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely pinkish, drying darker, banner spot whitish becoming magenta, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, upper margins often ciliate near claw.

11–15 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–10 mm, adaxial lobe 3-fid with 2 linear laterals, 4–8 mm;

corolla light to deep blue, limb centrally white at base, banner spot white to cream, glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous.

1–2 cm, coarsely pubescent.

3–5 cm, appressed villous to sericeous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4 or 5.

4–7, gray mottled black, 4 mm.