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Photographer: Merel R. Black
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Family Fabaceae
Lathyrus ochroleucus Hook.
cream pea-vine, pale vetchling, white pea
Lathyrus: from the Greek lathyros, an old name for "pea"
ochroleucus: yellowish
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-3' tall, smooth forb |
| Flower: | cream to yellow, 5-parted, 3/4" long; inflorescence a stalked cluster (raceme) of 5-10 stalked flowers on a stalk shorter than the leaves; blooms May-July |
| Fruit: | long, flat pod |
| Leaf: | pinnately-divided into 3-5 pairs of leaflets with a tendril at the end; asymmetrical, rounded, leaf-like appendages at the base |
| Habitat: | dry; woods, forests, cliffs |
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