Lathyrus vestitus |
Lathyrus rigidus |
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canyon pea, common Pacific pea, Pacific pea, Pacific peavine, Pacific vetchling, wild sweetpea |
bushy pea, Modoc pea, rigid pea, stiff pea, stiff peavine |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent. | Herbs perennial, from rootstock, glabrous. | ||||||||
Stems | angled to narrowly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–4 times, 2–20 dm. |
angled, erect, basally branched 5–10 times, 1–3 dm. |
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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. |
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. |
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Inflorescences | 5–20-flowered, 5–25 cm. |
2- or 3-flowered, 4–9 cm. |
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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. |
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. |
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Legumes | 40–60 × 4–7 mm. |
20–40 × 5–10 mm, stipitate. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus vestitus |
Lathyrus rigidus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |||||||||
Habitat | Basalt scablands with sagebrush. | |||||||||
Elevation | 800–1700 m. (2600–5600 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
w United States; nw Mexico
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CA; ID; NV; OR
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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. albus | |||||||||
Name authority | Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 276. (1838) | T. G. White: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 455. (1894) | ||||||||
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