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.

cauline;

stipules 5–20 mm;

petiole 4–10 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 5–50 × 4–7 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent, silver-hairy.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

10–70 cm, rachis persistent;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

7–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–9 mm.

2–4 mm.

4–6 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.

with distinctive sweet smell, 10–13 mm;

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

corolla violet to lavender, banner patch bright yellow, turning purple, banner usually hairy abaxially, keel usually ± lobed proximally, abaxial margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–5 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

5–8, mottled yellow-brown with lateral lines.

-ledons deciduous, petiolate.