Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, branched from just above ground.

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, ± fleshy;

stipules 15–20 mm;

petiole 2–15 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades widely oblanceolate, 25–70 × 10–30 mm, surfaces silver-silky.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

1–1.5 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–2.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 5–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–2 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.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe obscurely 2-toothed, 4–6 mm;

corolla yellow, banner usually hairy abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate middle to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3–4 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

3–5.