Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 20–40 × 2–5 mm, apex usually truncate, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

petiole 3–7 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–50 × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

10–25 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

2–4 mm.

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.

10–12 mm;

calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, upper keel margins with few cilia near apex, banner as wide as long or wider.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–6 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–8.