Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, 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, often crowded near base;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets 5 or 6, blades 10–25 × 4–15 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

6–12 cm;

flowers crowded or spaced, spirally arranged, crowded on young growth.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

3–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–3 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–7 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.

9–12 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, abaxial lobe 3-lobed, 3–4 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–2.5 mm, hairs becoming yellowish gray or brown on dried material;

corolla pale blue-violet, banner spot white, keel glabrous, wings inflated.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2.5–3.5 cm, yellowish gray- or brown-villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, petiolate.

6–8.

4 or 5.

= 36.