Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, 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 6–16 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 20–45 × 3–8 mm, adaxial surface tomentose, hairs silvery.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

5–16 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–5.5 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.

9–12 mm;

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

corolla usually yellow, banner hairy abaxially, keel ± glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, strigose.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–5, tan, 3–5 mm.