Flora of North America species comparison

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Vicia minutiflora

pygmyflower vetch, small-flower vetch
Habit Herbs winter annual.
Stems

sprawling or climbing, slender, 2–8 dm.
Leaves

2–6 cm;

tendrils simple or branched (absent on proximal leaves);

stipules foliose, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 2 or 4 proximally, 4–8 distally, blades ovate proximally, linear distally, 5–30 × 1–5 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences

1- or 2-flowered, 1–5 cm, ± shorter than subtending leaf rachis.
Flowers

5–8 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes unequal, shorter than tube;

corolla pale blue to lavender, banner pandurate, blade equal to claw, glabrous;

style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically.
Legumes

reddish brown, narrowly oblong-falcate, 15–30 × 4–5 mm, apiculate, glabrous;

stipe absent.
Seeds

6–8, blackish purple, subglobose, 2 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 5/8 circumference of seed.

Vicia minutiflora
Phenology Flowering Apr–May.
Habitat Mesic woodlands, limestone soils, disturbed sites.
Elevation 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MO; MS; OK; TN; TX
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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. leucophaea, V. ludoviciana, V. lutea, V. narbonensis, V. nigricans, V. ocalensis, V. pannonica, V. pulchella, V. sativa, V. sepium, V. tetrasperma, V. villosa
Synonyms V. micrantha, V. reverchonii
Name authority D. Dietrich: Syn. Pl. 4: 1107. (1847)
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