Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent, spreading, many branched.

erect, usually branched, sometimes unbranched.

basal, clustered;

stipules 20–150 mm;

petiole 2.5–10 cm;

leaflet 1, blades 40–120 × 18–33 mm, adaxial surface densely sericeous or strigulose.

cauline;

petiole 3–7 cm;

leaflets 7–9, blades 20–50 × 3–5 mm, adaxial surface sparsely pubescent.

8–30 cm;

flowers whorled.

10–25 cm;

flowers usually whorled, sometimes spirally arranged.

3–4 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–8 mm.

5–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

1–4 mm.

4–5 mm.

11–15 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–10 mm, adaxial lobe 3-fid with 2 linear laterals, 4–8 mm;

corolla light to deep blue, limb centrally white at base, banner spot white to cream, glabrous abaxially, keel glabrous.

10–12 mm;

calyx 6–10 mm, lobes ± equal, abaxial lobe entire, adaxial lobe deeply cleft;

corolla blue, banner spot white, upper keel margins with few cilia near apex, banner as wide as long or wider.

3–5 cm, appressed villous to sericeous.

3–6 × 0.8–1 cm, densely pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4–7, gray mottled black, 4 mm.

6–8.