| Vicia americana Muhl. | |||
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| Family | Leguminosae — APG family: Fabaceae | ||
| Description | Stem glabrous or sparsely pubescent, climbing; leaves with 4-8 pairs of oblong- ovate to elliptic, obtuse leaflets, with prominent, elevated lateral veins beneath; inflorescence shorter than the subtending leaves, 3—-9-flowered; calyx teeth unequal, shorter than tube; flowers bluish-purple; pod glabrous, with several seeds. | ||
| Ecology | Thickets, meadows. Described from Pennsylvania. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.