Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

erect, clustered, branched.

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 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–60 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

3–7 mm.

5–10 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 10–15 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 8–10 mm;

corolla violet to blue, banner patch yellowish to white or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–9.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.

= 48.