Flora of North America species comparison

ascending to erect, hollow, tufted, branched at crown.

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

mostly basal with a few cauline proximal to inflorescences;

stipules 8–10 mm;

petiole 5–19 cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 13–90 × 10–15 mm, abaxial surface thinly strigose, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline and basal;

stipules 4–9 mm;

petiole 2–16 cm;

leaflets 7–10(–13), blades 20–70 × 3–15 mm, adaxial surface strigose.

5–8(–15 in fruit) cm;

flowers spirally arranged or in 3–7 whorls.

open, 3–18 cm;

flowers whorled.

4–8.5 cm;

bracts caducous to tardily deciduous, 8–14 mm.

2–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–6 mm.

4–6 mm.

1–7 mm.

14–19(–21) mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 6–11 mm, entire or faintly notched at tip, adaxial lobe ± gibbous basally, adaxial lobe teeth with slight notch at tip, 4–8 mm;

corolla usually blue to purplish, sometimes pink, rarely white, banner spot white or yellow, sometimes becoming purple, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins densely ciliate near claw or glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tip, adaxial margin glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards tips.

8–14 mm;

calyx spur distinct, 1–3 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 2.5–5 mm, 1–3 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 2–4 mm;

corolla blue, purple, pink, white, or yellowish, banner patch white, yellowish, or absent, banner hairy abaxially, wings with dense hair patch outside near tip, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate.

2–4.3 cm, silky-pilose.

2–3 cm, silky.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

5–8, mottled.

3–6, tan, 5–6 mm.

= 48.