Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, 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 not leaflike, green to silvery, 5–16 mm;

petiole 3–6 cm;

leaflets 7–12, blades 30–80 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–22 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

3–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–9 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–6 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.

13–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 7–11 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–10 mm;

corolla light blue to purple, banner patch yellowish to white, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–7, beige, speckled brown, 4–6 mm.