Flora of North America species comparison

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

prostrate, branched, base ± 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, clustered near base;

stipules 2–5 mm;

petiole 1–5(–6) cm;

leaflets 5–10, blades 3–20 × 2–6 mm, adaxial surface pubescent.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

dense, 1–10 cm;

flowers whorled.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

1–3(–8) cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

1–3(–4) 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.

4–11 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe entire or 3-toothed, 4–6 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 4–7 mm;

corolla blue to violet, banner patch white or yellow, banner glabrous or densely hairy abaxially, keel straight, abaxial margins glabrous, adaxial margin glabrous or ciliate.

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

1–2 cm, silky.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3 or 4, mottled tan, brown, 3–4 mm.