Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched near middle.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petioles 2–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades bright green, 20–50 × 5–15 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose.

dense, 5–10 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

8–18 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 3–5 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

1.5–4 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

13–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 4–6 mm;

corolla banner yellow, wings usually pink, rarely white, keel white, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw.

2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually 5.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.