Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched.

erect, branched distally, emerging from ground stout, red.

cauline, often crowded near base;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets 5 or 6, blades 10–25 × 4–15 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

cauline;

stipules 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 6–8(–10), blades (15–)38–61 × 8–13 mm, adaxial surface green, ± puberulent to short-villous.

6–12 cm;

flowers crowded or spaced, spirally arranged, crowded on young growth.

15–20 cm;

flowers not whorled.

3–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–3 mm.

3–9 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 7–14 mm (conspicuously longer than buds).

3–7 mm.

2–6 mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, abaxial lobe 3-lobed, 3–4 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–2.5 mm, hairs becoming yellowish gray or brown on dried material;

corolla pale blue-violet, banner spot white, keel glabrous, wings inflated.

8–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 7–9 mm;

corolla pale yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous.

2.5–3.5 cm, yellowish gray- or brown-villous.

2.5–5 cm, hairy.

usually persistent, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4 or 5.

3–6.

= 36.