Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus vestitus |
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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling |
canyon pea, common Pacific pea, Pacific pea, Pacific peavine, Pacific vetchling, wild sweetpea |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent. | ||||||||
Stems | angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm. |
angled to narrowly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–4 times, 2–20 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. |
4–14 cm; tendrils well developed; stipules lanceolate to linear, 5–25 × 1–10 mm, much smaller than leaflets (more than 1/4 width of distal leaflets); leaflets 6–12, scattered, blades ovate to linear, 12–50 × 5–25 mm, surfaces glabrous or pubescent. |
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Inflorescences | 4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm. |
5–20-flowered, 5–25 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. |
12–25 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes deltate, linear-triangular, or lanceolate and wider distal to base, shorter to longer than tube; corolla cream-white, rose, lavender, blue-purple, or deep wine red, banner erect or reflexed toward calyx tube, blade equal to or longer than claw, wings equal to keel; ovary glabrous or pubescent. |
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Legumes | 30–70 × 4–7 mm. |
40–60 × 4–7 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus vestitus |
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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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w United States; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 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) | Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 276. (1838) | ||||||||
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