Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

± prostrate or ascending, branched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

basal (clustered near base);

stipules 4–5 mm;

petiole 2–4.5 cm;

leaflets 6–8, blades 10–20 × 2–4 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

2–7 cm;

flowers in few whorls, widely separated.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–10 cm;

bracts usually deciduous, 4–5 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.

9–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe obscurely 3-toothed, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe notched, 4–5 mm;

corolla ± violet, banner patch yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

1 or 2.