Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus brownii |
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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling |
Brown's brush pea, Brown's pea, Brown's sweet pea |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous. |
Stems | angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm. |
angled, sprawling, basally branched 0–3 times, 2–5 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. |
4–6 cm; tendrils well developed; stipules linear, 5–15 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets; leaflets 6–10, scattered, blades ovate to linear, 15–40 × 1–10 mm, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm. |
2–4-flowered, 3–4 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. |
12–16 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube; corolla purple, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings longer than keel (by 1–3 mm); ovary glabrous. |
Legumes | 30–70 × 4–7 mm. |
30–40 × 5–8 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus brownii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. | Stream banks, open ponderosa pine forests. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 800–1800 m. (2600–5900 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; NV; OR
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Discussion | Lathyrus brownii has been variously allied with L. pauciflorus (C. L. Hitchcock 1952) or with L. lanszwertii (R. C. Barneby 1989). It is distinct from L. pauciflorus by its smaller leaflets and flowers and by its range (northeastern California and adjacent Nevada and Oregon versus Colorado and Utah to Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and eastern Washington), and from L. lanszwertii by its larger flowers, smaller leaflets, general absence of pubescence, and its more typical prostrate, sprawling habit. C. L. Hitchcock (1952) considered Lathyrus schaffneri Rydberg as described by L. Abrams and R. S. Ferris (1923–1960, vol. 2) to be referable to L. brownii. (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 | L. lanszwertii var. brownii, L. pauciflorus subsp. brownii |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) | Eastwood: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 491. (1903) |
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