Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

± prostrate, branched, weak.

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 8–12 mm;

petiole 1–3 cm;

leaflets 3–5, blades 5–20 × 2–5 mm, adaxial surface sericeous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

open, 2–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

4–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–5 mm.

2–4 mm.

3–5 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.

11–13 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or notched, adaxial lobe deeply notched;

corolla light blue to lavender, banner patch white to yellow turning violet, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

±3 cm, pubescent.

2–3 cm, shaggy.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

5–8, tan, mottled brown, 3–4 mm.