Herbs perennial. Stems erect, sprawling, or climbing, slender to robust, 1–8 dm. Leaves 1–4 cm; tendrils simple or branched; stipules foliose, sometimes wider than leaflets, semisagit­tate, without nectariferous patch; leaflets 6 or 8, blades oblong-elliptic to linear, 7–25 × 1–6 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces long-villous abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Inflorescences 1- or 2-flowered, 1–3 cm, equal to subtending leaf rachis. Flowers 7–9 mm; calyx base symmetric, lobes subequal, longer than tube; corolla cream to white with purple keel tip, banner stenonychioid, blade shorter than or equal to claw, glabrous; style terete, hairs in dense ring between stigma and ovary. Legumes pale brown, oblong, 25–40 × 4–6 mm, oblique-tipped, appressed-pubescent; stipe to 1 mm. Seeds 6–9, reddish brown, compressed-globose, 2.5 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/4 circumference of seed.

Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Pine forests.
Elevation: 1600–2500 m.

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Sonora).

Discussion

Vicia leucophaea is found in eastern and southern Arizona and in southwestern New Mexico.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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