Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect or ascending, very short, tufted or spreading, branched.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

cauline, crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 2–9 cm;

leaflets 7–11, blades 10–30 × 4–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

several–many-flowered, 3–14 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

1–10 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–4 mm.

2–4 mm.

1–4 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.

4.5–7 mm;

calyx 3–6 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla dark blue-purple or whitish with blue tip, banner spot white becoming yellow, keel blunt, glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

undulate, 1.5–2 cm, not constricted between seeds, ciliate with long, dense hairs, sides with short, inflated hairs becoming scaly on drying.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

6–8.

2, wrinkled.