Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

very short, tufted, 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, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets (3 or)5–9, blades 8–20 × 2–9 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

dense, 3–16-flowered, 1–8 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, crowded.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–8(–10) cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–3 mm.

2–4 mm.

0.3–1.5 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.

6–8 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire or shallowly cleft, ± 6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 3 mm, less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla bright blue, banner spot white or yellow, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

not undulate, 1 cm, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

6–8.

1 or 2, smooth.