Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, hollow.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

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.

cauline;

petiole 1–7 cm;

leaflets 5–8, blades 10–40 × 1–5 mm, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

5–28 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers dense.

4–20 cm;

flowers usually in fewer than 5 whorls, sometimes spirally arranged.

4–17 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–10 mm.

3–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 4–6 mm.

1–3 mm.

1–3.5 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.

4–10 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe deeply cleft, 2–4 mm;

corolla usually blue, rarely light blue, pink, or white, banner spot white, becoming magenta, upper keel margins usually ciliate near apex, rarely glabrous, sometimes blunt, banner longer than wide.

1.5–2 cm, hairy to woolly.

1–3 × 0.3–0.6 cm, pubescent.

deciduous, petiolate.

deciduous, petiolate.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 3–4 mm.

5–8.

= 48.