Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, clustered, branched.

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 5–14 mm;

petiole 4–7(–10) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–60 × 6–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

20–45 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–12 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–11 mm.

2–4 mm.

5–10 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 10–15 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 8–10 mm;

corolla violet to blue, banner patch yellowish to white or absent, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

dark, 4–6 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–8, brownish to gray, 5–6 mm.