Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or 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 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–3.5 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.

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

5–8.

= 48.