Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or slightly spreading, clustered, unbranched or branched distally.

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 10–15 mm;

proximal petioles (3–)5–14 cm, distal ones (1–)2–4 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 35–80 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

6–20 cm;

flowers in 4–8 distinct whorls.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

6–12 cm;

bracts semideciduous, 4–10 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–4 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.

8–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 2 or 3-toothed or entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 7 mm;

corolla blue, banner patch white to yellowish, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial keel sparsely ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, densely hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–8.