Vicia americana

Family: Fabaceae
Common Name: American vetch
Symbol: VIAM
Description: Perennial; vining or trailing, glabrous to densely pubescent, up to 1 m long. Leaves pinnate, with mucronate or cuspidate tips, pedicels ending in tendrils, leaves 8-18 foliolate, the leaflets usually ovate to elliptic, obtuse at the apex, 15-35 mm long, 6-14 mm wide. Corollas purple, 15-25 mm long, calyx teeth much shorter than to tube, stamens united below, style with a sub-apical tuft of hairs. Found in pine forests from 5,000-10,000 ft.