Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending-erect, 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 5–13 mm;

petiole 1–5 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–60 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or with scattered hairs.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

open, 6–34 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts ± persistent, 3–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–4 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.

8–10(–12) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–9 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–8 mm;

corolla usually pale yellow to orange-yellow, sometimes white, banner patch orange to yellow, keel tip pale lavender, banner usually hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–4 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

1–4, speckled tan and brown, 4.5–5.5 mm.