Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending-erect, clustered, 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, 5–18 mm;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 20–70 × 5–14 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

open, 10–44 cm;

flowers usually whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 6–16 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–7 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.

(8–)12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–13 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–12 mm;

corolla usually purple, rarely yellowish white, banner patch indistinct, banner glabrous abaxially, keel strongly upcurved, glabrous, banner and wings narrow, not covering tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–5 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–7, gray to tan, mottled tan, 4–7 mm.

= 48.