Flora of North America species comparison

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

sprawling or climbing, filiform, 1–5 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.

1–4 cm;

tendrils simple or branched;

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

leaflets 4–12, blades oblanceolate or elliptic to linear, 6–20 × 1–5 mm, apex acute to apiculate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely villous.

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

1–3-flowered, 1–3 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.

3–6 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes unequal, longer than or equal to tube;

corolla light purple to pale lavender, banner stenonychioid, blade equal to claw, glabrous;

style compressed abaxially, sparsely pubescent apically.

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

stipe to 1 mm.

yellow to light brown, oblong, 10–15 × 3–4 mm, tip rounded, stigma attached to center of curve, glabrous;

stipe to 1 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, greenish gray to purplish black, subglobose, 1.5–2 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/5–1/4 circumference of seed.

= 14.