Le Burkei S. Wats. A showy perennial, sometimes forming rounded 
clumps a meter in diameter, the stems glabrous below, sparingly appressed@> 
hairy above, leafy throughout; petioles of lowermost leaves 20-40 cm, 
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long, nearly glabrous, the leaflets of uppermost leaves 5-10 om, long, 
1-2 em, broad, oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex but shortly mucronate, 
glabrous and deep green on the upper surface, very soft and smooth, thinly 
appressed-hairy on the lower, spikes showy,10-40 cm, long, the rachis and 
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pedicels rather thinly pubesccnt, the latter slender, 2-5 mm, long; 
bracts 7-10 mm, long, setaceous, plumose-hairy, soon falling; calyces : 
silky-hirsute, the upper lip 3 mm, long, retuse, the lower lip 4-45 mm, 
long; corolla blue, becoming purple, the banner rotund, glabrous on the 
back, 8-9 mm, in diameter, the wings 10-11 mm, long, 6-7 m, wide, ob- 
ovate, subequal to the abruptly bent glabrous keel; pod 2-2,5 cm, long, 
5-6 mm, wide, 5-8-seeded, : 
Common in meadows at lower elevations, particularly in the north, 
locally abundant in subalpine meadows or bald spots amongst Bear Grass 
in the St, Joe and Clearwater forests, 
