Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or spreading, branched or 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, basal when present withered by anthesis;

stipules 5–10 mm;

petiole 4–20 cm;

leaflets 5–11, blades 40–100 × 6–24 mm, abaxial surface ± hairy, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

16–60 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

8–20 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–12 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–12 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.

8–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire or notched, 4–8 mm, adaxial lobe entire or 2-toothed, 5–10 mm;

corolla blue or purple to white, banner patch usually white to yellowish turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins usually ciliate, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to middle.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–4.5 cm, ± densely hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–10, mottled dark brown, 3–4 mm.