Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus decaphyllus |
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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome. | ||||
Stems | angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm. |
angled, erect or sprawling, basally branched 0–2 times, 1.5–3 dm. |
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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. |
1–4 cm; tendrils bristlelike, usually less than 1 cm; stipules linear to lanceolate, 10–30 × 1–5 mm, nearly equal to leaflets; leaflets 8–12, often paired, blades lanceolate to linear, 10–35 × 1–5 mm, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. |
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Inflorescences | 4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm. |
2–6-flowered, 4–11 cm. |
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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. |
16–22 mm; calyx lobes subequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube; corolla usually violet to magenta, sometimes white, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings 4–5 mm longer than keel; ovary glabrous. |
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Legumes | 30–70 × 4–7 mm. |
35–50 × 8–12 mm, stipitate. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus decaphyllus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. | |||||
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 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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wc United States |
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Discussion | 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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Synonyms | L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus | |||||
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 471. (1813) | ||||
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