Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

prostrate, branched, base ± 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, clustered near base;

stipules 2–5 mm;

petiole 1–5(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 3–20 × 2–6 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

dense, 1–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–3(–8) cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–3(–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.

4–11 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm;

corolla blue to violet, banner patch white or yellow, banner glabrous or densely hairy abaxially, keel straight, abaxial margins glabrous, adaxial margin glabrous or ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1–2 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3 or 4, mottled tan, brown, 3–4 mm.