Lathyrus latifolius |
Lathyrus biflorus |
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broad-leaf peavine, everlasting or perennial sweet pea, everlasting pea, everlasting peavine, everlasting vetchling, perennial pea, perennial peavine, perennial sweet pea, sweet pea |
two-flower pea, two-flower sweet pea |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, villous. |
Stems | broadly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 1–5 times, 8–20 dm. |
angled, erect or sprawling, basally branched 1–3 times, 0.5–1 dm. |
Leaves | 2–5 cm, rachises broadly winged; tendrils well developed, branched; stipules lanceolate, 30–40 × 7–15 mm, at least 1/2 width of stem, much smaller than leaflets; leaflets 2, blades lanceolate-elliptic, 30–120 × 7–50 mm, surfaces glabrous. |
0.5–1 cm; tendrils absent or reduced to flattened bristles; stipules linear, 4–5 × 1–2 mm, ca. 1/2 length of leaflets; leaflets (3 or)4(or 5), paired, blades lanceolate, 6–12 × 2–3 mm, surfaces finely villous. |
Inflorescences | 5–15-flowered, 10–33 cm. |
1- or 2-flowered, 1 cm. |
Flowers | 15–20 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes linear-triangular, shorter than tube; corolla purple, magenta, pink, or white, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings equal to keel; ovary densely glandular-pubescent, style rotated 90° from ovary axis. |
7–8 mm; calyx lobes subequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube; corolla cream, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel; ovary glabrous. |
Legumes | 50–110 × 5–10 mm. |
13–15 × 3–5 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus latifolius |
Lathyrus biflorus |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | Flowering Jun. |
Habitat | Roadsides, disturbed areas. | Serpentine outcrops and Jeffrey pine woodlands. |
Elevation | 50–2100 m. (200–6900 ft.) | 1300–1400 m. (4300–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; MT; NC; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, South America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay), Asia (China, Japan), n, e, s Africa, Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand), Australia]
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CA |
Discussion | Lathyrus latifolius is widely naturalized in North America and forms large thickets along roadsides, especially in the Pacific Coast states. M. J. W. Godt and J. L. Hamrick (1991) explored genetic variation within the species as it occurs in North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lathyrus biflorus is known only from southeastern Humboldt County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 733. (1753) | T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson: Brittonia 35: 183, fig. 2. (1983) |
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