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

redwood pea, sticky pea

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

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

narrowly winged, erect, sprawling, or climbing, basally branched 0–2 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.

14–18 cm;

tendrils well developed;

stipules lanceolate, 10–20 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 14–18, scattered, blades ovate to lanceolate, 30–50 × 10–20 mm, surfaces pubescent with eglandular trichomes, glandular-pubescent abaxially.

Inflorescences

4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm.

7–12-flowered, 10–16 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.

10–14 mm;

calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes linear-triangular, longer than tube;

corolla blue-purple, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary densely glandular-pubescent.

Legumes

30–70 × 4–7 mm.

30–50 × 6–8 mm.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Lathyrus ochroleucus

Lathyrus glandulosus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. Roadsides, talus slopes, oak woodlands.
Elevation 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) 0–800 m. (0–2600 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 glandulosus is known only from Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties.

(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. biflorus, L. brachycalyx, L. brownii, L. cicera, L. decaphyllus, L. delnorticus, L. eucosmus, 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) Broich: Madroño 33: 136, figs. 1, 2. (1986)
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