Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

ascending or erect, usually branched, sometimes 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.

cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.3–3.3 cm;

leaflets (3 or)4–7, blades 7–20(–24) × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

dense, several-flowered, 1–3 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

(1–)3–6 cm;

bracts persistent, 3–4 mm.

3–7 mm.

0.8–2 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.

5–9 mm;

calyx 7–8 mm, adaxial lobe more than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla usually blue with pale banner patch, sometimes entirely white, keel glabrous.

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

not obviously undulate, 0.9–1.3 cm, sparsely or densely pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent on young plants, becoming dry and deciduous, sessile.

6–9.

2.

= 48.