Lathyrus latifolius |
Lathyrus brachycalyx |
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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 |
Bonneville pea, Bonneville peavine, Bonneville vetchling, Rydberg's peavine |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or villous. | ||||
Stems | broadly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 1–5 times, 8–20 dm. |
angled, erect, sprawling, or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 1–5 dm. |
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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. |
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. |
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Inflorescences | 5–15-flowered, 10–33 cm. |
2–5-flowered, 5–15 cm. |
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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. |
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. |
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Legumes | 50–110 × 5–10 mm. |
30–40 × 6–8 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus latifolius |
Lathyrus brachycalyx |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. | |||||
Habitat | Roadsides, disturbed areas. | |||||
Elevation | 50–2100 m. (200–6900 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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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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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) | Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 34: 425. (1907) | ||||
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