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Lathyrus biflorus
Also called Two Flowered Lathyrus, Two Flowered Pea
Lathyrus biflorus is a rare species of wild pea known by the common name two-flowered sweet pea. It only grows in Humboldt County, California. It is a member of the serpentine soils flora. This is a petite perennial herb growing thin, tough, fuzzy stems with leaves each made up of two pairs of small linear leaflets. There are tiny bristlelike tendrils. The inflorescence bears two greenish-white pea flowers each up to a centimeter wide. The fruit is a hairless dehiscent legume pod.
The two-flowered sweet pea is endemic to just southeastern Humboldt County in California. There it grows on outcrops of serpentine in Jeffrey pine woodlands at elevations of 1,300–1,400 meters (4,300–4,600 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lathyrus biflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
