Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched, usually succulent.

cauline;

petiole flattened and leafletlike, 3–10 cm;

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

cauline, may be crowded at base on new growth;

petiole 6–15 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–60 × 7–20 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

15–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

5–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx 4–7 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe cleft;

corolla usually blue-purple, rarely white, lavender, or pink, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper wing margins ciliate near claw, lower and upper keel margins ciliate near claw.

±3 cm, pubescent.

3.5–5 cm, coarsely pubescent to tomentose.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

6–9.

= 48.