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

Photo is of parent taxon
Habit Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or villous. Herbs glabrous or sparsely villous.
Stems

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

sprawling or climbing, 3–5 dm.

Leaves

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.

5–9 cm;

leaflets 6–10, blades 18–70 × 3–8 mm.

Inflorescences

2–5-flowered, 5–15 cm.

Flowers

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.

13–16 mm, banner deeply cordate.

Legumes

30–40 × 6–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

Lathyrus brachycalyx

Lathyrus brachycalyx var. zionis

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

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

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

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.)

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 Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus > Lathyrus brachycalyx
Sibling taxa
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
L. brachycalyx var. brachycalyx
Subordinate taxa
L. brachycalyx var. brachycalyx, L. brachycalyx var. zionis
Synonyms L. zionis, L. brachycalyx subsp. zionis
Name authority Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 34: 425. (1907) (C. L. Hitchcock) S. L. Welsh: Great Basin Naturalist 38: 317. (1978)
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