Flora of North America species comparison

sprawling or climbing, slender to robust, 2–20 dm.

sprawling or climbing, slender to robust, to 20 dm.

2–10 cm;

tendrils branched;

stipules much smaller than leaflets, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 7–14, blades ovate to linear, 5–25 × 1–11 mm, apex acute to emarginate, surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

2–8 cm;

tendrils usually branched;

stipules foliose, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 10–28, blades narrowly oblong or elliptic to linear, 10–25 × 2–8 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrate to pilose.

2–19-flowered, 1–15 cm, or flowers 1, ± shorter than subtending leaf rachis.

10–50-flowered, 4–20 cm, equal to or longer than subtending leaf rachis.

4–7 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes subequal, shorter than or equal to tube;

corolla deep blue to bluish purple or pinkish white to light lavender, banner pandurate, blade equal to or longer than claw, glabrous;

style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically.

8–16 mm;

calyx base symmetric to slightly gibbous, lobes unequal, pilose, lateral ones equal to tube;

corolla usually blue-violet or purple, sometimes lilac or whitish, banner pandurate, blade equal to or longer than claw, glabrous;

style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically.

yellow to brown, flat, rhombic-oblong, 16–30 × 4–6 mm, oblique-tipped, glabrous;

stipe to 1 mm.

tawny, broadly oblong, 15–30 × 6–8 mm, oblique-tipped, glabrous;

stipe to 1.5 mm.

4–8, brownish gray, mottled dark purple, subglobose to compressed-subglobose, 2.2–2.5 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/4–1/3 circumference of seed.

4–8, dark grayish to purplish brown, sometimes mottled purple, globose to ellipsoid-ovoid, 2.5–4 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/5–1/3 circumference of seed.

= 12, 14, 21, 22, 28.