Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched 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;

petioles 2–8 cm;

leaflets usually 7, blades bright green, 20–50 × 5–15 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

dense, 5–10 cm;

flowers spirally arranged.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

8–18 cm;

bracts tardily deciduous, 3–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

1.5–4 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.

13–18 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 4–6 mm;

corolla banner yellow, wings usually pink, rarely white, keel white, lower and upper margins ciliate from claw to middle.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

usually 5.