Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus rigidus |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 | ||
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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