Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, ascending, or decumbent, 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 and basal;

stipules 4–9 mm;

petiole 2–16 cm;

leaflets 7–10(–13), blades 20–70 × 3–15 mm, adaxial surface strigose.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–7 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.

8–14 mm;

calyx spur distinct, 1–3 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 2.5–5 mm, 1–3 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–4 mm;

corolla blue, purple, pink, white, or yellowish, banner patch white, yellowish, or absent, banner hairy abaxially, wings with dense hair patch outside near tip, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.