Flora of North America species comparison

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

ascending or erect, branched, woody.

cauline, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

stipules 8–12 mm;

petiole 2–3(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–12, blades 20–60 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

10–30 cm;

flowers whorled or not.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

4–10 cm;

bracts deciduous, 8–10 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

4–10 mm.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

14–18 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire, 5–7 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 5–9 mm;

corolla usually yellow, rarely lilac to purple, banner patch darker or not or white, banner glabrous abaxially, lower keel margins glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate from claw to tip.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

4–7 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

8–12, black to tan, often striped lighter, 4–5 mm.

= 48.