Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

petiole 2–8 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 10–40 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

6–30 cm;

flowers spirally arranged or appearing ± whorled proximally.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–6 cm;

bracts usually persistent, 4–8 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.

7–10 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla banner and wings dark pink to magenta, drying blue-purple or whitish, banner spot yellowish, becoming darker magenta, lower keel margins ciliate near claw, upper margins glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

often secund, 1–2 cm, coarsely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–6.

= 48.