Lathyrus odoratus |
Lathyrus grimesii |
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common sweet pea, gesse odorante, sweet pea, sweet vetchling |
grimes' pea, grimes' vetchling |
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Habit | Herbs annual, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. | Herbs perennial, from rhizomelike rootstock, glabrous. |
Stems | broadly winged, climbing, basally branched 1–3 times, 8–30 dm. |
angled, erect, branched 0–2 times basally or from proximal nodes, 0.5–2 dm. |
Leaves | 2–6 cm, rachises winged; tendrils well developed; stipules lanceolate, 10–25 × 2–6 mm, smaller than leaflets; leaflets 2, blades ovate or obovate, 15–50 × 10–40 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pustulose-hirsute. |
1–2 cm; tendrils reduced to bristles; stipules lanceolate to linear, 5–15 × 1–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets; leaflets 4 or 6, paired, blades ovate to obovate, 10–25 × 5–10 mm, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 2–4-flowered, 10–20 cm. |
2–4-flowered, 4–6 cm. |
Flowers | 20–25 mm; calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes linear-triangular to lanceolate, equal to tube; corolla white, pink, purple, violet, or blue, banner erect, blade much longer than claw, wings longer than keel; ovary densely pustulose-hirsute, style rotated 90° from ovary axis. |
14–17 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes deltate, shorter than tube; corolla bicolored lavender and white, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings longer than keel, 1–3 mm; ovary glabrous. |
Legumes | 50–70 × 8–15 mm. |
25–30 × 8–10 mm, stipitate. |
2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus odoratus |
Lathyrus grimesii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. | Talus slopes in sagebrush communities. |
Elevation | 50–400 m. (200–1300 ft.) | 1800–2600 m. (5900–8500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CT; IL; IN; KY; ME; MI; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; MB; NF; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (México), Asia (China, India), n, e Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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Discussion | Lathyrus odoratus is cultivated as an ornamental and is an occasional escape. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lathyrus grimesii is known only from the northern Independence Range and southern Bull Run Mountains in Elko County. (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 |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 732. (1753) | Barneby in A. Cronquist et al.: Intermount. Fl. 3(B): 208, plate [p. 211], fig. s.n. [center right]. (1989) |
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