Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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.

basal;

stipules 6–11 mm;

petiole (2–)3–6(–8) cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 5–20 × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

crowded, 2–6 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

3–7 cm;

bracts ± deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

(2–)4–5 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.

8–11 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe ± entire, 6–7 mm, adaxial lobe deeply 2-toothed, 5–7 mm;

corolla violet, banner patch cream or white, keel ± straight, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin usually glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1–2 cm, appressed-villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–5, white.