Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

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 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

2–4 mm.

4–10 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.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

4–7 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

= 48.