Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

erect, solitary, branched, robust, succulent, hirsutulous.

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 6–9 mm;

proximal petioles 5–7 cm, withering, distal ones 3.5–6.5 cm;

leaflets 7–10, blades 30–95 × 5–13 mm, abaxial surface finely strigulose, adaxial surface glabrate, yellow-green or gray-green.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

5–34 cm;

flowers whorled or spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

4–5 cm;

bracts semi-deciduous, 5–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

2–8(–10) 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ± slightly gibbous, 9–15 mm, adaxial lobe slightly notched, 7–11 mm;

corolla pale blue and whitish, banner with conspicuous darker spot, banner glabrous or hairy abaxially, keel falcate, often ± ciliolate distally.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3.5 × 0.8–1 cm, hirsute.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

5–7.

= 48.