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big deervetch, broad leaf lotus

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big deervetch, broad leaf lotus

Habit Herbs 70–150 cm, villous or sparsely strigulose to glabrate; root-spreading. Herbs glabrate or sparsely strigulose.
Stems

(1–)5–20+, ascending to erect, fleshy, stout, hollow.

Leaves

stipules triangular or ovate to lanceolate, (2–)5–8 mm, membranous becoming scarious, often becoming inconspicuous; short-petiolate to petiolate;

rachis often curved, 6–12 cm;

leaflets (7–)9–15(–19), petiolulate, blades widely ovate to widely elliptic or widely obovate, (10–)20–30 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, surfaces sparsely strigillose to glabrate.

Peduncles

ascending, 3–8 cm, usually shorter than, rarely equaling, subtending leaf, elongating in fruit, glabrate or glabrous;

bract medial or absent, leaflets (1 or)3 or 5-foliolate.

Umbels

8–20-flowered.

Flowers

asymmetric, 12–16(–18) mm;

calyx green marked with purplish or pinkish, or purplish to pinkish, 4.5–8 mm, glabrous, tube cylindric, 4–6 mm, lobes deltate, 0.5–2 mm, sparsely ciliolate or eciliate;

corolla greenish or whitish becoming marked with red or purple, wings ± equaling keel, claw ± longer than calyx tube, banner implicate-ascending to 45°, keel apex acute.

Legumes

± ascending to inclined, reddish to brown, linear, turgid, (10–)35–70 × 3–5 mm, leathery, incompletely septate, glabrous.

Ovules

17–35.

Seeds

7–12, olive or reddish to dark brown, obovoid, 3–4 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Hosackia crassifolia

Hosackia crassifolia var. crassifolia

Phenology Flowering spring(–early sum­mer).
Habitat Chaparral, pine or mixed woodlands, margins of woods, gravelly slopes, road­sides, disturbed sites, mountainous regions, serpentine soils.
Elevation 600–2600 m. [2000–8500 ft.]
Distribution
from USDA
w United States; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; NV; OR; WA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Lotus crassifolius (Bentham) Greene [not Persoon] is an illegitimate name that pertains to Hosackia crassifolia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Variety crassifolia reaches its northern limit in Grays Harbor County, western Washington. The main distribution area is in the Cascade Range and coastal ranges of Oregon, southward into the Sierra Nevada and along the California Coast Ranges to the San Bernardino Mountains and Peninsular Ranges, and into Baja California, Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Herbs glabrate or sparsely strigulose; ovules.
var. crassifolia
1. Herbs villous; ovules 14–21.
var. otayensis
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Hosackia Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Hosackia > Hosackia crassifolia
Sibling taxa
H. alamosana, H. gracilis, H. incana, H. oblongifolia, H. pinnata, H. rosea, H. stipularis, H. yollabolliensis
H. crassifolia var. otayensis
Subordinate taxa
H. crassifolia var. crassifolia, H. crassifolia var. otayensis
Synonyms H. platycarpa, H. stolonifera
Name authority Bentham: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 365. (1836) unknown
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