Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent-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 not leaflike, green to silvery, 10–12 mm;

petiole 1–2 cm;

leaflets 6 or 7, blades 15–25 × 3–7 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

open, 4–20 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–4 cm;

bracts semideciduous, 7–8 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–4 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.

12–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–8 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–8 mm;

corolla white, banner patch turning tawny, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–3.5 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4 or 5, mottled brown, 7–11 mm.