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.

cauline;

petiole 2–8.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7(–9), blades 10–40 × 1–12 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–40 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged distally.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–12 mm.

2–4 mm.

2.5–7 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.

6–15 mm;

calyx 4–8 mm, lobes ± equal, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, lavender, pink, white, banner spot white, upper keel margins ciliate near apex, banner as wide as or wider than long.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–4 × 0.4–0.7 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–12.

= 48.