Flora of North America species comparison

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

spreading-ascending, clustered, robust, branched or unbranched.

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 abortive or early deciduous (occurring only on very new growth), 9–15 mm;

petiole 2–3.5 cm;

leaflet 1, blades 30–70 × 15–25 mm, surfaces short-appressed, velvety to satiny sericeous.

6–35 cm;

flowers loosely spirally arranged.

4–25 cm;

flowers whorled.

3–10 cm;

bracts persistent, 2–5 mm.

2.5–6.5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–7 mm.

2–4 mm.

4–6 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.

11–14 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe ovate, 2-lobed, 8–12 mm, adaxial lobe lanceolate, entire or obscurely 3-lobed, 5–10 mm;

corolla pink or rose to blue, banner spot maroon to dark blue, banner glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous.

±3 cm, pubescent.

1.5–2.5 cm, villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

6–8.

2–4.