{{Short description|Plant species in the pea family}} {{Speciesbox | image = Lathyrus pauciflorus 9684.JPG | image_caption = | status = {{TNCStatus}} | status_system = TNC | status_ref = <ref name="NatureServe">{{cite web |last1=NatureServe |title=''Lathyrus pauciflorus'' |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.130571/Lathyrus_pauciflorus |access-date=5 July 2024 |location=Arlington, Virginia |date=2024}}</ref> | genus = Lathyrus | species = pauciflorus | authority = Fernald | subdivision_ranks = Varieties | subdivision_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=136191-2 |title=''Lathyrus pauciflorus'' Fernald |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref> | subdivision = {{Species list | Lathyrus pauciflorus var. pauciflorus | | Lathyrus pauciflorus var. utahensis |(M.E.Jones) M.Peck }} }}

'''''Lathyrus pauciflorus''''', known by the common name of '''few flowered peavine''',<ref name="burke">Burke Herbarium Image Collection| https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Lathyrus%20pauciflorus | accessdate = 22 May 2021</ref> is a perennial plant species in the Fabaceae family.<ref name="fpn">Hitchcock and Cronquist, Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 1973</ref>

==Description== The flowers are blue to purple, blooming early in spring,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Taylor|first=Ronald J.|title=Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary|publisher=Mountain Press Pub. Co|year=1994|isbn=0-87842-280-3|edition=rev.|location=Missoula, MT|pages=106|language=en|oclc=25708726|orig-year=1992}}</ref> usually growing to at least 18 millimeters. The leaves are mostly greater than 3 centimeters. The keel is 2–4&nbsp;mm shorter than the wing petals.<ref name="fpn"/>

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==Distribution== This plant grows at lower elevations from sagebrush desert to Ponderosa pine forests east of the Cascade crest in Washington, Washington to California and east to Idaho and Arizona.<ref name="burke"/><ref name="fpn"/>

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==External links== * [https://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Lathyrus%20pauciflorus Lathyrus pauciflorus- Burke Herbarium Image Collection]

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pauciflorus Category:Flora of the Western United States Category:Flora of California Category:Flora of Oregon Category:Flora of Idaho Category:Flora of Arizona

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