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

bushy pea, Modoc pea, rigid pea, stiff pea, stiff peavine

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

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

angled, erect, basally branched 5–10 times, 1–3 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.

1–3 cm;

tendrils bristlelike, less than 1 cm;

stipules lanceolate, 10–15 × 1–8 mm, equal to distal leaflets;

leaflets 4–8, paired, blades lanceolate, 15–30 × 5–10 mm, surfaces glabrous.

Inflorescences

4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm.

2- or 3-flowered, 4–9 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.

12–18 mm;

calyx lobes ± unequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube;

corolla white to lilac, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings longer than keel;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

30–70 × 4–7 mm.

20–40 × 5–10 mm, stipitate.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Lathyrus ochroleucus

Lathyrus rigidus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. Basalt scablands with sagebrush.
Elevation 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) 800–1700 m. (2600–5600 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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CA; ID; NV; OR
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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. 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. sphaericus, L. splendens, L. sulphureus, L. sylvestris, L. tingitanus, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. tuberosus, L. venosus, L. vestitus
Synonyms L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus L. albus
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) T. G. White: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 455. (1894)
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