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redwood pea, sticky pea

Habit Herbs perennial, from rhizome, sparsely puberulent.
Stems

narrowly winged, erect, sprawling, or climbing, basally branched 0–2 times, 2–6 dm.

Leaves

14–18 cm;

tendrils well developed;

stipules lanceolate, 10–20 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 14–18, scattered, blades ovate to lanceolate, 30–50 × 10–20 mm, surfaces pubescent with eglandular trichomes, glandular-pubescent abaxially.

Inflorescences

7–12-flowered, 10–16 cm.

Flowers

10–14 mm;

calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes linear-triangular, longer than tube;

corolla blue-purple, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary densely glandular-pubescent.

Legumes

30–50 × 6–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

Lathyrus glandulosus

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Roadsides, talus slopes, oak woodlands.
Elevation 0–800 m. (0–2600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Lathyrus glandulosus is known only from Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties.

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

Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus
Sibling taxa
L. angulatus, L. aphaca, L. biflorus, L. brachycalyx, L. brownii, L. cicera, L. decaphyllus, L. delnorticus, L. eucosmus, 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
Name authority Broich: Madroño 33: 136, figs. 1, 2. (1986)
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