Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

erect, unbranched or branched distally.

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.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–16 mm;

petiole 3–6 cm;

leaflets 7–12, blades 30–80 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

4–22 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm.

3–7 mm.

2–6 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.

13–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–10 mm;

corolla light blue to purple, banner patch yellowish to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

3–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–9.

3–7, beige, speckled brown, 4–6 mm.

= 48.