Flora of North America species comparison

erect, unbranched or branched distally, hollow.

ascending or erect, branched.

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, often crowded near base;

petiole 1–6 cm;

leaflets 5 or 6, blades 10–25 × 4–15 mm, adaxial surface glabrate.

5–28 cm, usually exceeding leaves;

flowers dense.

6–12 cm;

flowers crowded or spaced, spirally arranged, crowded on young growth.

4–17 cm;

bracts persistent, 5–10 mm.

3–8 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–3 mm.

1–3 mm.

3–7 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.

9–12 mm;

calyx 5–6 mm, abaxial lobe 3-lobed, 3–4 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2–2.5 mm, hairs becoming yellowish gray or brown on dried material;

corolla pale blue-violet, banner spot white, keel glabrous, wings inflated.

1.5–2 cm, hairy to woolly.

2.5–3.5 cm, yellowish gray- or brown-villous.

deciduous, petiolate.

usually persistent, petiolate.

4–6, brown, mottled tan, 3–4 mm.

4 or 5.

= 36.