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canyon pea, common Pacific pea, Pacific pea, Pacific peavine, Pacific vetchling, wild sweetpea

aspen peavine, lanszwert's pea, lanszwert's vetchling, Nevada pea, Nevada peavine, Nevada sweet pea, pinewood peavine, Rocky Mountain sweetpea, thick-leaf pea, thick-leaf peavine

Habit Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent. Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
Stems

angled to narrowly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–4 times, 2–20 dm.

angled, erect, sprawling, or climbing, basally branched 0–4 times, 1–8 dm.

Leaves

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.

(0.5–)1–8 cm;

tendrils mucronate to well developed;

stipules linear to lanceolate, 5–25 × 1–6 mm, much smaller than leaflets;

leaflets 2–10, scattered, blades lanceolate or linear, 20–70 × 2–20 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

Inflorescences

5–20-flowered, 5–25 cm.

2–6-flowered, 2–10 cm.

Flowers

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.

7–15 mm;

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

corolla white or blue-purple, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

40–60 × 4–7 mm.

25–45 × 6–10 mm.

Lathyrus vestitus

Lathyrus lanszwertii

Distribution
from USDA
w United States; nw Mexico
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from USDA
w North America
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Flowers 16–25 mm, corollas dark wine red, ban­ners reflexed against calyx tube.
var. alefeldii
1. Flowers 12–17 mm, corollas cream-white, rose, lavender, or blue-purple, banners erect.
→ 2
2. Leaflet blades often sparsely to densely pubes­cent throughout, sometimes pubescent abax­ially, glabrous adaxially; flowers rose, lavender, or blue-purple; California, sw Oregon.
var. vestitus
2. Leaflet blades glabrous; flowers cream-white; Puget Sound area to sw Oregon and nw California.
var. ochropetalus
1. Stems (2–)3–8 dm, usually climbing, sometimes sprawling or erect; tendrils well developed, usually branched.
→ 2
2. Leaflets 8–10; corollas blue-purple; California northward to Washington, eastward to Colorado and Wyoming.
var. lanszwertii
2. Leaflets 6–8; corollas white; w Colorado, c Utah, Wyoming.
var. pallescens
1. Stems 1–3(–4) dm, usually erect (sometimes var. bijugatus sprawling or climbing); tendrils reduced to simple bristles less than 1 cm.
→ 3
3. Leaflets 2–4; e Washington, adjacent Idaho, Montana, British Columbia.
var. bijugatus
3. Leaflets 4–8; California northward to sc Washington and eastward to New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
→ 4
4. Flowers 7–10 mm; California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.
var. aridus
4. Flowers 10–15 mm; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming.
var. leucanthus
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. ochroleucus, 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. 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. 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. tingitanus, L. torreyi, L. tracyi, L. tuberosus, L. venosus, L. vestitus
Subordinate taxa
L. vestitus var. alefeldii, L. vestitus var. ochropetalus, L. vestitus var. vestitus
L. lanszwertii var. aridus, L. lanszwertii var. bijugatus, L. lanszwertii var. lanszwertii, L. lanszwertii var. leucanthus, L. lanszwertii var. pallescens
Name authority Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 276. (1838) Kellogg: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 150, fig. 44. (1863)
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