Marsh Pea

Marsh Pea

Lathyrus palustris

Marsh Pea is a pretty and delicate plant.  It's a vine that wanders around adjacent vegetation.  I've only seen it in one place.  It was a wooded wet area right next to a lake in northeast Indiana.  Perhaps it's more common, just in places that are hard to get to.

It attaches to vegetation via tendrils

The compound leaf ends with a tendril

At the base of each leaf is a pair of little leaf-looking things called stipules

At least part of the stems are winged

The leaves are arranged alternately along the stem

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