Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent, ascending, or erect, unbranched or branched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–17 mm;

petiole 2–6 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–50 × 3–7 mm, widest above middle, adaxial surface pubescent, appressed-hairy to ± silky or dull green.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

2–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to subwhorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2–8 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–6 mm.

8–13 mm;

calyx 3–4 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, 2.5–3 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 1.5–2 mm;

corolla banner and wings magenta, banner spot white or yellowish, becoming dark magenta, keel stout, blunt, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or minutely 3-toothed, 3–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–6.5 mm;

corolla pale yellowish to lavender or violet, banner patch yellow to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–6, mottled brown, 4–6 mm.

= 48.