Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent or erect, branched just above ground, hairs less than 1 mm, not sharp or stiff.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

cauline, clustered at base;

stipules 7–12 mm;

petiole 5–12 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 15–40 × 5–12 mm, adaxial surface densely tomentose to woolly, hairs ± spreading.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

10–40 cm;

flowers ± whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

stout, 6–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 7–8 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–5 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.

10–15 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–8 mm, adaxial lobe deeply notched, 6–7 mm;

corolla bluish to purple, banner patch yellow turning purple to white, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, banner glabrous or ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3 or 4, mottled grayish, 4–7 mm.