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

Tangier pea

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

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

broadly winged, climbing, basally branched 1–3 times, 8–20 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.

2–4 cm, rachises winged as the stem;

tendrils well developed;

stipules lanceolate, 15–25 × 5–10 mm, smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 2, blades ovate or obovate to lanceolate, 25–60 × 5–35 mm, surfaces glabrous.

Inflorescences

4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm.

1–3-flowered, 4–20 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.

20–30 mm;

calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes deltate, usually shorter than tube;

corolla rose-purple, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings longer than keel;

ovary glabrous, style rotated 90° from ovary axis.

Legumes

30–70 × 4–7 mm.

70–100 × 8–12 mm, narrowly winged on abaxial suture.

2n

= 14.

= 14.

Lathyrus ochroleucus

Lathyrus tingitanus

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul. Flowering Apr–May.
Habitat Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. Disturbed areas.
Elevation 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) 0–1200 m. (0–3900 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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from FNA
CA; ID; OR; BC; Europe; intro­duced also in Mexico (Oaxaca); nw Africa; Pacific Islands (Hawaii, New Zealand); Australia [Introduced in North America]
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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. rigidus, L. sphaericus, L. splendens, L. sulphureus, L. sylvestris, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. tuberosus, L. venosus, L. vestitus
Synonyms L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 732. (1753)
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