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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

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.

Lathyrus ochroleucus

Lathyrus biflorus

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
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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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Discussion

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
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. aphaca, 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) T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson: Brittonia 35: 183, fig. 2. (1983)
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