Flora of North America species comparison

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

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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.

basal and cauline;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1.5–4.5 cm;

leaflets 5–7, blades 7–22 × 3–6 mm, adaxial surface softly villous.

5–8(–15 in fruit) cm;

flowers spirally arranged or in 3–7 whorls.

well exserted, several–many-flowered, 3–7 cm;

flowers crowded, whorled proximally, becoming spirally arranged distally.

4–8.5 cm;

bracts caducous to tardily deciduous, 8–14 mm.

2–5.5 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–7 mm.

4–6 mm.

2–4 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.

8–10 mm;

calyx 5–8 mm, lobes unequal, adaxial lobe less than 1/2 as long as abaxial;

corolla blue or whitish and blue-tipped, keel glabrous.

2–4.3 cm, silky-pilose.

not obviously undulate, 1–1.3 cm, softly villous-pilose.

deciduous, petiolate.

persistent or deciduous, disclike, sessile, leaving a circular scar.

5–8, mottled.

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= 48.