Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect, ascending, or decumbent, branched.

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 2–7 mm;

petiole 5–15 cm;

leaflets 4–7, blades widely spoon-shaped, 30–40(–50) × 10–20 mm, surfaces densely silky.

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

flowers spirally arranged.

open to dense, 10–30 cm;

flowers ± whorled.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

8–15 cm;

bracts deciduous, 3–4 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

4–6 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.

12–16 mm;

calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 7–10 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–10 mm;

corolla purple to violet, banner ± hairy abaxially, lower keel margins usually ± glabrous, adaxial margin ciliate claw to tip.

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

2–3 cm, hairy.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3–7, light brown, 3–5 mm.