Lathyrus vestitus |
Lathyrus torreyi |
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canyon pea, common Pacific pea, Pacific pea, Pacific peavine, Pacific vetchling, wild sweetpea |
redwood pea, Torrey's pea, Torrey's peavine |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous or sparsely to densely pubescent. | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, finely villous. | ||||||||
Stems | angled to narrowly winged, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–4 times, 2–20 dm. |
angled, erect to sprawling, basally branched 0–3 times, 1–4 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. |
2–7 cm; tendrils absent or mucronate; stipules lanceolate, 7–12 × 2–5 mm, much smaller than leaflets; leaflets 8–16, scattered, blades ovate to lanceolate, 5–15 × 3–10 mm, surfaces villous. |
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Inflorescences | 5–20-flowered, 5–25 cm. |
1- or 2-flowered, 0.5–3 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. |
8–12 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes linear-triangular, longer than tube; corolla blue-purple, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings longer than keel; ovary densely pubescent. |
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Legumes | 40–60 × 4–7 mm. |
15–20 × 4–5 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Lathyrus vestitus |
Lathyrus torreyi |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | |||||||||
Habitat | Open coniferous forests. | |||||||||
Elevation | 50–1500 m. (200–4900 ft.) | |||||||||
Distribution |
w United States; nw Mexico
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CA; OR; WA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lathyrus torreyi is known from in and west of the Cascade Range; it is very rare in Washington. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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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Name authority | Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 276. (1838) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 337. (1868) | ||||||||
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