Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, 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.

basal and cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.5–4.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7, blades 7–22 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface softly villous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

well exserted, several–many-flowered, 3–7 cm;

flowers crowded, whorled proximally, becoming spirally arranged distally.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–5.5 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–7 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.

8–10 mm;

calyx 5–8 mm, lobes unequal, adaxial lobe less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla blue or whitish and blue-tipped, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

not obviously undulate, 1–1.3 cm, softly villous-pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent or deciduous, disclike, sessile, leaving a circular scar.

6–8.

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