Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

cauline, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–3.5 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.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

6–8.

2, wrinkled or ridged.