Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched.

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

cauline, crowded near base;

petiole 2–6 cm;

leaflets 5 or 6(or 7), blades 10–25 × 6–12 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).

2–12 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

loose, 5–16(–25) cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–6 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2–3 mm.

(1–)4–25(–30) cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 3–4 mm.

4–6 mm.

(1–)2–5(–7) mm.

10–13 mm;

calyx 6–8 mm, abaxial lobe entire or cleft, 4–5 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–3 mm, hairs silvery;

corolla usually dark blue, rarely white, banner spot bright white, keel glabrous, wings flat.

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.

2.5–3.5 cm, white silky-villous.

(1–)2–3 cm, hairy or silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4 or 5.

(2 or)3–5(or 6), tan, brown, or red.

= 36.