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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lathyrus hirsutus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
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Learn more about Caley Pea from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lathyrus hirsutus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lathyrus hirsutus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Lathyrus hirsutus
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-38-001:
Lathyrus hirsutus FAMILY Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lathyrus hirsutus
COMMON NAME:
Caley Pea, Singletary Pea
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lathyrus hirsutus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lathyrus hirsutus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lathyrus hirsutus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Lathyrus hirsutus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 098-38-001:
Lathyrus hirsutus
FAMILY
Fabaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lathyrus hirsutus
3259
Herbaceous vine; Forb
Annual
Habitat: Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Common in Piedmont (common to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 2 leaflets
Mostly alternate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue-violet
or rarely red or white
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate-to-somewhat-turbinate calyx
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Densely long-hirsute
Legume
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p338
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p038
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p196
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p134
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p171
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p076
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