Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or ascending, 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;

stipules 8–10 mm;

petiole 1–3.5 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–25 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

5–20 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–6 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–10 mm.

2–4 mm.

4–8 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.

8–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 7–9 mm, adaxial lip deeply lobed, 5–7 mm;

corolla light violet to blue, banner patch persistently yellow, banner densely hairy abaxially, lower keel margins ± ciliate, adaxial margins glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–3.5 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–8, mottled brown, 4–5 mm.