Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched near middle.

short, erect or spreading, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petioles 2–8 cm;

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

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 10–20 × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

dense, 5–10 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

elongate, dense, several–many-flowered, 2–12 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers spirally arranged.

8–18 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 3–5 mm.

3–5(–10 in fruit) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

1.5–4 mm.

1–3 mm.

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.

7–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe shallowly cleft, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1–3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla bright blue, banner spot yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

not obviously undulate, ovoid, often secund, 0.5–1 cm, adaxial margin not constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

usually 5.

2–4, ridged.