Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus biflorus |
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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling |
two-flower pea, two-flower sweet pea |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, villous. |
Stems | angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm. |
angled, erect or sprawling, basally branched 1–3 times, 0.5–1 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. |
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 | 4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm. |
1- or 2-flowered, 1 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. |
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 | 30–70 × 4–7 mm. |
13–15 × 3–5 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus biflorus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Jun. |
Habitat | Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. | Serpentine outcrops and Jeffrey pine woodlands. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 1300–1400 m. (4300–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
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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CA |
Discussion | Lathyrus biflorus is known only from southeastern Humboldt County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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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Synonyms | L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus | |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) | T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson: Brittonia 35: 183, fig. 2. (1983) |
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