Lathyrus pauciflorus ssp. pauciflorus var. pauciflorus
Few Flowered Peavine

Family: Fabaceae [Leguminosae] (Legume family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, openly wooded slope, dry

Flowers:

Corolla purple, fading to bluish-brown; keel 2 to 4 mm less than wing petals; lowest tooth on calyx generally greater than tube; style flattened, hairy for most of its' length but only on the ventral side; 10 fertile stamens

Fruit:

pods much longer than broad, several seeded

Leaves:

leaflets usually less than 10, linear to oblong-elliptic, mostly greater than twice as long as broad (in Chelan Co. leaves showing much variability in width); stipules broadly lanceolate to ovate, smaller than leaflets

Plant:

perennial; tendrils present and well developed; rhizomatous.

Habitat:

grassland and sagebrush slopes to Ponderosa Pine forest

Distribution of species:

Chelan County Washington to central Oregon, east to western Idaho

Distribution of genus:

more or less 150 species: temperate North America and Eurasia

More information about this plant:

Flora Northwest