Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

decumbent, ascending, or erect, clustered, usually 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;

stipules 7–14 mm;

petiole 2–5 cm;

leaflets 6 or 7, blades 20–50 × 4–8 mm, adaxial surface hairs silvery-silky.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

dense, 3–7 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

(1–)2–4(–5) cm;

bracts 3–4 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.

11–13 mm;

calyx 6–7 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, adaxial lobe 2-toothed;

corolla blue to lilac, banner patch yellow, banner well reflexed-recurved at or proximal to midpoint, this 3.5–6 mm proximal to apex, banner broader than long, hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

4–5, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.