[Peavines: The Genus Lathyrus in Mt. Adams Country]

The photo at left shows a close-up sideview of the flower of thick-leaved peavine. Note the hairy calyx and long lower calyx lobe. The keel is about 1 mm shorter than the wings. Photographed along Lakeside Road in the Public Hunting Area of Conboy Lake NWR.........June 21, 2008. The photo at right shows the long, narrow leaflets, long tendrils and colorful flowers of thick-leaved peavine as seen along Lakeside Road in the Public Hunting Area of Conboy Lake NWR.........June 21, 2008.

The photo at left shows the long, narrow leaflets and distinct tendril while the photo at right shows a close-up of an inflorescence of thick-leaved peavine as seen along Lakeside Road in the Public Hunting Area of Conboy Lake NWR.........June 21, 2008.

Additional photos of thick-leaved peavine as seen along the Willard Springs Trail in Conboy Lake NWR........May 24, 2016, Note the hairs at the tip of the stigma which are directed back towards the ovary, a characteristic of the genus Lathyrus, while the genus Vicia have hairs spreading in all directions around the tip of the stigma.

Thick-leaved peavine as seen at left in bitterbrush scrublands near the Klickitat Hatchery Road, Klickitat Canyon Community Forest.........June 9, 2022. The photo at right shows a close-up of the inflorescence of thick-leaved peavine as seen along the Willard Springs Trail in Conboy Lake NWR........May 15, 2020.