Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched at base, hairs 1–3 mm, sharp, stiff.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

usually basal;

stipules 10–24 mm;

petiole 6–30 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 20–55 × 6–15 mm, adaxial surface densely woolly.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

10–45 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

10–50 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–8 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.

fragrant, 10–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–11 mm, adaxial lobe, 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla lavender to rose, banner patch yellow turning purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–7 cm, densely hairy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

5–8, tan, 3–4 mm.