Flora of North America species comparison

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Vicia pulchella

beautiful vetch, showy vetch, sweetclover vetch
Habit Herbs perennial.
Stems

sprawling or climbing, slender, 2–15 dm.
Leaves

4–11 cm;

tendrils branched;

stipules much smaller than leaflets, ligulate, without nectariferous patch;

leaflets 10–16, blades elliptic-oblong to linear, 7–30 × 1–11 mm, apex obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial often sparsely long-pubescent.
Inflorescences

8–25-flowered, 2–15 cm, shorter to longer than subtending leaf rachis.
Flowers

4–7 mm;

calyx base symmetric, lobes equal, usually shorter than tube;

corolla cream-white with purple-tipped keel, banner pandurate, blade equal to claw, glabrous;

style compressed adaxially, pubescent evenly for some length along style.
Legumes

reddish brown, oblong, 20–35 × 5–8 mm, acute-tipped, glabrous;

stipe 1–2 mm.
Seeds

5–9, purplish black, compressed-subglobose, 2–3 mm diam.;

hilum encircling 1/4 circumference of seed.

Vicia pulchella
Phenology Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat Pine woods, juniper grasslands, moist meadows, open stony hillsides.
Elevation 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico
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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. minutiflora, V. narbonensis, V. nigricans, V. ocalensis, V. pannonica, V. sativa, V. sepium, V. tetrasperma, V. villosa
Synonyms V. melilotoides
Name authority Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.: Nov. Gen. Sp. 6(fol.): 390; 6(qto.): 499; plate 583. (1824)
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