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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Fruit Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Sprawling vine, clings to other plants with its coiling tendrils; leaflets arranged along middle vein; elongated spikes of small whitish flowers; stubby, pointed fruit pods.
Identification notes: Slender, climbing stems, often tangled and matted; 10 to 16 oblong and narrow leaflets, slightly hairy; climbing tendrils; flower stems shorter than leaves; 6 to 20 3/8 inch whitish flowers on each flower stem, purple veins, purple tipped keels.
Height:
2-1/2 feet long
Habitat Description: Found in moist soils in pine forests.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 6000 - 8500 feet
Color:
Whitish
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Jun - Sep
Description:
Stalk shorter than leaves; 6 to 20 flowers in each raceme (unbranched flower stem); sepal teeth much shorter than tube; corolla 1/4 to 1/2 inch long; purple-veined banner and purple tipped keels.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Numerous often matted stems; leaves divided along each side of leafstalk with tendrils at the top of the plant stem, 10 to 16 leaflets, leaflets oblong, narrow, slightly hairy.
Fruit Type: Pod
Fruit Notes: Smooth, 3 to 10 seeded, 1 to 1-1/4 inches long, marked with smears of color or spots (mottled or patchy).
Seed Notes: Oval to round, smooth surface, olive, brown, or black.
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