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Bonneville pea, Bonneville peavine, Bonneville vetchling, Rydberg's peavine

Habit Herbs glabrous or sparsely villous. Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or villous.
Stems

sprawling or climbing, 3–5 dm.

angled, erect, sprawling, or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 1–5 dm.

Leaves

5–9 cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 18–70 × 3–8 mm.

2–9 cm;

tendrils usually well developed, sometimes reduced to a single bristle;

stipules lanceolate, 5–12 × 1–3 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 6–12, scattered, blades elliptic to narrowly so, 8–70 × 3–8 mm, surfaces glabrous or villous.

Inflorescences

2–5-flowered, 5–15 cm.

Flowers

13–16 mm, banner deeply cordate.

13–20 mm;

calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube;

corolla pinkish to deep blue-purple, banner erect, blade nearly 2 times as long as claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

30–40 × 6–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

Lathyrus brachycalyx var. zionis

Lathyrus brachycalyx

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Sagebrush, juniper, and pinyon pine communities.
Elevation 1300–2300 m. (4300–7500 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT
[BONAP county map]
from USDA
w United States
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[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Variety zionis is found in northern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and western and southeastern Utah.

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

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Key
1. Stems 1–3 dm, erect; herbs mostly villous throughout; banners shallowly cordate.
var. brachycalyx
1. Stems 3–5 dm, sprawling or climbing; herbs gla­brous or sparsely villous; banners deeply cordate.
var. zionis
Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus > Lathyrus brachycalyx Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus
Sibling taxa
L. brachycalyx var. brachycalyx
L. angulatus, L. aphaca, L. biflorus, L. brownii, L. cicera, L. decaphyllus, L. delnorticus, L. eucosmus, L. glandulosus, L. graminifolius, L. grimesii, L. hirsutus, L. hitchcockianus, L. holochlorus, L. japonicus, L. jepsonii, L. laetivirens, L. lanszwertii, L. latifolius, L. littoralis, L. nevadensis, L. nissolia, L. ochroleucus, L. odoratus, L. palustris, L. pauciflorus, L. polyphyllus, L. pratensis, L. pusillus, L. rigidus, L. sphaericus, L. splendens, L. sulphureus, L. sylvestris, L. tingitanus, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. tuberosus, L. venosus, L. vestitus
Subordinate taxa
L. brachycalyx var. brachycalyx, L. brachycalyx var. zionis
Synonyms L. zionis, L. brachycalyx subsp. zionis
Name authority (C. L. Hitchcock) S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 38: 317. (1978) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 34: 425. (1907)
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