Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, clustered, unbranched or 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, yellow-green;

stipules 12–30 mm;

proximal petioles 5–10 cm, distal ones 2 cm;

leaflets 4–9, blades 30–110 × 5–11 mm, adaxial surface villous, hairs greater than 1 mm.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

2–6 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers spirally arranged or whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–6 cm;

bracts persistent, 7–15 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–5 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 6–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–8 mm;

corolla light blue, banner patch yellow, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin sparsely ciliate ± middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–4 cm, woolly.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–6, beige, mottled dark, 3–4 mm.