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Vicia leucophaea

Mogollon Mountain vetch, Mogollon vetch
Habit Herbs perennial.
Stems

erect, sprawling, or climbing, slender to robust, 1–8 dm.
Leaves

1–4 cm;

tendrils simple or branched;

stipules foliose, sometimes wider than leaflets, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 6 or 8, blades oblong-elliptic to linear, 7–25 × 1–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces long-villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially.
Inflorescences

1- or 2-flowered, 1–3 cm, equal to subtending leaf rachis.
Flowers

7–9 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes subequal, longer than tube;

corolla cream to white with purple keel tip, banner stenonychioid, blade shorter than or equal to claw, glabrous;

style terete, hairs in dense ring between stigma and ovary.
Legumes

pale brown, oblong, 25–40 × 4–6 mm, oblique-tipped, appressed-pubescent;

stipe to 1 mm.
Seeds

6–9, reddish brown, compressed-globose, 2.5 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/4 circumference of seed.

Vicia leucophaea
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Pine forests.
Elevation 1600–2500 m. (5200–8200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sonora)
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Discussion

Vicia leucophaea is found in eastern and southern Arizona and in southwestern New Mexico.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Vicia
Sibling taxa
V. acutifolia, V. americana, V. benghalensis, V. caroliniana, V. cracca, V. disperma, V. faba, V. floridana, V. grandiflora, V. hassei, V. hirsuta, V. lathyroides, V. ludoviciana, V. lutea, V. minutiflora, V. narbonensis, V. nigricans, V. ocalensis, V. pannonica, V. pulchella, V. sativa, V. sepium, V. tetrasperma, V. villosa
Name authority Greene: Bot. Gaz. 6: 217. (1881) — (as leucophoea)
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