Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, hollow.

basal and cauline, green;

stipules 5–20 mm;

basal petioles 10–25 cm, cauline 1–4 cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 30–80(–130) × 5–8 mm, adaxial surface strigose, hairs less than 1 mm.

5–28 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers dense.

4–17 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–10 mm.

1–3 mm.

10–12 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm;

corolla violet to dark blue, banner patch orange to red, banner usually glabrous abaxially, rarely hairy, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin densely ciliate.

1.5–2 cm, hairy to woolly.

deciduous, petiolate.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 3–4 mm.