Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

erect or ascending, green or purplish, clustered, branched or unbranched.

cauline, may be crowded at base on new growth;

petiole 6–15 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–60 × 7–20 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

basal and/or cauline;

stipules 2–12 mm;

petiole 1–15 cm;

leaflets (5 or)6–10, blades 10–60 × 4–10 mm, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy (but not strigose).

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

3–7 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

12–18 mm;

calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla usually blue-purple, rarely white, lavender, or pink, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper wing margins ciliate near claw, lower and upper keel margins ciliate near claw.

5–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, bulge or spur 0–3 mm (may be variable on plant), abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed;

corolla usually blue, sometimes purple, violet, pink, lilac, or white, banner patch yellowish to whitish, blue, brown, or absent, banner not much reflexed-recurved beyond midpoint, this less than 3 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or pubescent abaxially, wings glabrous, lower keel margins glabrous, upper margins ciliate.

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–9.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

= 48.