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Lanszwert's pea, Nevada pea, thick-leaved pea

Brewer's sweet pea, snub pea, sulfur pea

Habit Plants perennial. Plants perennial.
Stems

sprawling or climbing, 2–8 dm, angled to narrowly winged, basally branched 0–4 times.

climbing, 5–15 dm, ribbed or angled, branched 0–3 times at the base.

Leaves

5–8 cm;

leaflets 4–10, unpaired, lanceolate, rarely linear, 30–70 × 5–20 mm, glabrous to sparsely pubescent;

tendrils well developed or not;

stipules linear to lanceolate; much < leaflets, bases semi-sagittate.

9–12 cm;

leaflets 8–12, unpaired; ovate to lanceolate, 25–50 × 10–20 mm;

surfaces glabrous;

tendrils well developed;

stipules lanceolate, sometimes as large as terminal leaflets, bases semi-sagittate.

Inflorescences

2–6-flowered, 3–10 cm.

9–15-flowered, 6–10 cm.

Flowers

7–15 mm;

calyx lateral lobes deltoid; < tubes;

corollas blue-purple to white;

banners ? claws in length;

wings ? keels in length.

11–13 mm;

corollas yellow, tan, or orangetinged;

wings ? keels.

Lathyrus lanszwertii

Lathyrus sulphureus

Distribution
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Discussion

Western United States. 5 varieties; 2 varieties treated in Flora.

Mixed oak-pine woodlands. Flowering Apr–Jun. 0–700 m. Est, Sisk. CA. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 690
Steven Broich
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 693
Steven Broich
Sibling taxa
L. angulatus, L. aphaca, L. brownii, L. delnorticus, L. hirsutus, L. holochlorus, L. japonicus, L. latifolius, L. littoralis, L. nevadensis, L. nissolia, L. odoratus, L. palustris, L. pauciflorus, L. polyphyllus, L. rigidus, L. sativus, L. sphaericus, L. sulphureus, L. sylvestris, L. tingitanus, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. vernus, L. vestitus
L. angulatus, L. aphaca, L. brownii, L. delnorticus, L. hirsutus, L. holochlorus, L. japonicus, L. lanszwertii, L. latifolius, L. littoralis, L. nevadensis, L. nissolia, L. odoratus, L. palustris, L. pauciflorus, L. polyphyllus, L. rigidus, L. sativus, L. sphaericus, L. sylvestris, L. tingitanus, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. vernus, L. vestitus
Subordinate taxa
L. lanszwertii var. aridus, L. lanszwertii var. lanszwertii
Synonyms Lathyrus nevadensis ssp. stipulaceus, Lathyrus sulphureus var. sulphureus
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