Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

prostrate to decumbent, clustered, acaulescent or short-spreading and unbranched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

mostly near base, in a rosette;

stipules 4–10 mm;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–7(or 8), blades 10–55 × 4–12 mm, adaxial surface greenish, surfaces copiously villous-hirsute with long, spreading hairs, abaxially more dense.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

6–23 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

3–4.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–4 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.

7–13 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, lobes entire, 5–7.5 mm;

corolla violet-blue, banner yellow toward center, tip of keel purple, wings yellow toward center, banner glabrous abaxially, upper keel margins ciliate to densely ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1.5–2 cm, hispid.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–5, dark with light spots.