Vicia pulchella

Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.

Nov. Gen. Sp. 6(fol.): 390; 6(qto.): 499; plate 583. 1824.

Common names: Beautiful or showy vetch
Synonyms: Vicia melilotoides Wooton & Standley
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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.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Pine woods, juniper grasslands, moist meadows, open stony hillsides.
Elevation: 1500–3000 m.

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Mexico.

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Steven L. Broich +
Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al. +
Beautiful or showy vetch +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +  and Mexico. +
1500–3000 m. +
Pine woods, juniper grasslands, moist meadows, open stony hillsides. +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
Nov. Gen. Sp. +
Vicia melilotoides +
Vicia pulchella +
species +