Hosackia crassifolia |
Hosackia crassifolia var. crassifolia |
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big deervetch, broad leaf lotus |
big deervetch, broad leaf lotus |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Umbels | 8–20-flowered. |
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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. |
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Legumes | ± ascending to inclined, reddish to brown, linear, turgid, (10–)35–70 × 3–5 mm, leathery, incompletely septate, glabrous. |
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Ovules | 17–35. |
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Seeds | 7–12, olive or reddish to dark brown, obovoid, 3–4 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
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Hosackia crassifolia |
Hosackia crassifolia var. crassifolia |
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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 |
w United States; nw Mexico
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||
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Synonyms | H. platycarpa, H. stolonifera | |||||
Name authority | Bentham: Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 365. (1836) | unknown | ||||
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