Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent to erect, clustered, branched or unbranched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

cauline, clustered near base or not;

stipules 6–20 mm;

petiole 1–8(–12) cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 10–45 × 4–18 mm, surfaces hairy.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–40 cm, rachis usually deciduous or semideciduous;

flowers usually spirally arranged or loosely whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–13 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–24 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–10 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.

10–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 6–10 mm, adaxial lobe deeply divided, 6–8 mm;

corolla violet to lavender, patch usually yellow, rarely white, turning purple, banner usually hairy abaxially, rarely glabrous, keel usually unlobed proximally, adaxial margin usually ciliate middle to tip, abaxial margins glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–9, mottled tan, 4–6 mm.