Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or 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, often crowded near base;

petiole 2–9 cm, ascending- or appressed-pubescent;

leaflets (5 or)7, blades 10–20 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

18–45 cm;

flowers well spaced, usually spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5.5–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

5–7 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.

10–13(–15) mm;

calyx 6–7 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 6 mm, adaxial lobe 3-cleft, 4 mm;

corolla bright violet-blue, banner spot creamy or yellow, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3.5–5 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, usually inconspicuous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–8.

= 36.