Flora of North America species comparison

± erect, branched distally, branches subtended by leaves, leaves dispersed along stems, more so distally;

pseudoscapes to 10 cm (when present);

cataphylls 9–20 mm, glabrous or pubescent apically.

erect to decumbent, short and hidden by stipules, sometimes with decumbent lateral stems with dense cluster of leaves and inflorescences distally, unbranched, leaves clustered;

pseudoscapes to 0.5 cm;

cataphylls to 15 mm, conspicuously veined.

palmately 3–6-foliolate;

stipules tardily deciduous proximally, persistent distally, linear, 8–18 × 2–4 mm, rarely glandular, glabrous;

petiole not swollen or jointed basally, slightly canaliculate, 2–55 mm, strigose;

petiolules 1–4 mm;

leaflet blades oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or orbiculate, 1.1–4.5 × 0.6–2.2 cm, base attenuate, apex acute, acuminate to apiculate, surfaces abaxially sparsely to densely sericeous, rarely eglandular, adaxially glabrous or less sericeous.

palmately 5(–8)-foliolate;

stipules persistent, lanceolate to elliptic, 5–14 × 2.5–5 mm, pubescent;

petiole jointed to leaf spur, 4–13(–15) mm, glabrate to sparsely pubescent;

petiolule 0.5–2 mm;

leaflet blades broadly ovate, orbiculate, oblanceolate, or ± rhombic, 1–4 × 0.6–4 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, apex rounded to broadly acute, surfaces gray-green to yellow-green, sometimes bicolor, glandular, appressed-pubescent.

persistent, oblong, elongate;

rachis 0–6 cm, exposed, nodes (1 or)2–4(–8), (1–)3 flowers per node, internodes 3–7(–17) mm;

bracts persistent, linear to lanceolate or elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–4 mm, sericeous.

disjointing in age at peduncle base, subglobose to elongate;

rachis 0.5–7 cm, elongating in fruit, nodes 2–10, (1–)3(or 4) flowers per node, internodes relatively short or to 9 mm;

bracts tardily deciduous, oblanceolate, lanceolate, or elliptic, (6–)8–13(–18) × 2.5–10 mm, eglandular to sparsely glandular, strigose abaxially.

3–9 cm, longer than subtending petiole, densely white-strigose.

2.5–7.5(–10) cm, shorter than subtending petiole, pubescent, with relatively long, erect to reflexed hairs or with hairs of 2 types: short, appressed to incurved-ascending hairs and long, spreading-erect to reflexed, straight to curly hairs.

0.5–1 mm.

1.5–6(–8) mm.

7–11 mm;

calyx elongating and becoming broadly and shallowly campanulate in fruit but not gibbous, 6–8 mm abaxially, 4–6 mm adaxially, glandular (glands often hidden by hairs), sericeous (sometimes sparsely so);

tube 2–3 mm;

lobes linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, abaxial 4.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm, adaxial 1.5 × 1 mm;

corolla deep blue, banner oblanceolate to obovate or orbiculate, 6–7.5 × 3.5–5 mm with claw 1.5–2 mm, wings 6–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm with claw 2–2.5 mm, keel 5–6 × 1.5–2 mm with claw 2–3 mm;

filaments 4.5–5 mm;

anthers elliptic, 0.4 mm;

ovary glabrous proximally, canescent on distal 2/3, style canescent basally.

(13–)15–20(–22) mm;

calyx gibbous-campanulate in fruit, (14–)16–19 mm abaxially, (13–)15–17 mm adaxially, eglandular or minutely glandular, setose or with appressed hairs;

tube 6–8(–10) mm;

lobes lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, abaxial 7–10 × 2.5–3 mm, adaxial 6–8 × 1–2 mm;

corolla whitish blue to purple, banner lighter than or similar to wings and keel, obovate-lanceolate, 16–22 × 6–9 mm with claw 6–7 mm, wings 13–20 × 2–3 mm with claw 8–10 mm, keel 14–16 × 2–3 mm with claw 8–9 mm, blade with darker blotch distal to middle;

filaments 13–17 mm;

anthers elliptic, 0.3 mm;

ovary pubescent throughout or on distal 1/2, style pubescent at base.

narrowly oblong, 5–6 × 3–4.5 mm, obscurely glandular, tomentose, beak 3–5 mm, equal to or slightly longer than calyx.

oval-ellipsoid, 6–9 × 4–5 mm, eglandular, erect- to appressed-pubescent distally, beak attenuate, (3–)5–8 mm, included within calyx.

red-brown, round-reniform, 4–5 × 3–4 mm, dull.

brown, reniform-elliptic, 4–5 × 3–4 mm, shiny.

= 22.