Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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 5–10 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 25–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

8–11 cm;

flowers spirally arranged to whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3.5–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–6 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.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4.5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3.5–6 mm;

corolla usually purple, sometimes pink or white, banner patch usually white, banner hairy abaxially, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3 or 4, 5–6 mm.