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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling

yellow pea, yellow vetchling

Habit Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. Herbs annual, glabrous.
Stems

angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm.

not winged, erect or climbing, basally branched 1–several times, 2–6 dm.

Leaves

(2–)3–10 cm;

tendrils well developed;

stipules somewhat foliose, ovate-lanceolate, 15–35 × 5–20 mm, sometimes equal to distal leaflets;

leaflets (5 or)6(–8), usually paired, blades broadly ovate to lanceolate, (20–)25–65 × 10–35(–42) mm, surfaces glabrous.

reduced to tendrils, unbranched or branched, 1–4 cm;

stipules ovate, 10–35 × 10–25 mm, base hastate, margins entire;

leaflets 0.

Inflorescences

4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm.

1-flowered, 2–4 cm.

Flowers

10–15 mm;

calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes lanceolate, usually longer than tube;

corolla cream-white, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

6–10 mm;

calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes broadly lanceolate, longer than tube;

corolla yellow, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

30–70 × 4–7 mm.

15–30 × 5–7 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Lathyrus ochroleucus

Lathyrus aphaca

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. Roadsides, waste areas.
Elevation 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.)
Distribution
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AK; IA; ID; IL; IN; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SD; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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AL; AR; CA; KY; LA; MD; NE; OR; PA; TN; TX; WA; Eurasia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in n, e Africa]
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Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus 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. 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. 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. angulatus, L. biflorus, L. brachycalyx, 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
Synonyms L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 729. (1753)
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