Lens culinaris Calflora

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Taxon Report

Lens culinaris Medik.

Lentil

2020 Donald Burk

2007 Luigi Rignanese

2020 Donald Burk

Lens culinaris is an annual herb that is not native to California.


	Plant Range Observation Search ~6 records in California Plant Characteristics

Bloom Period

Photos on Calflora


Genus:	Lens
Family:	Fabaceae
Category:	angiosperm
PLANTS group:	Dicot
Jepson eFlora section: eudicot

Communities: agricultural weed, escaped cultivar

Name Status:
Accepted by JEF + PLANTS

Alternate Names:


PLANTS	Cicer lens
PLANTS	Ervum lens
PLANTS	Lens esculenta

Information about Lens culinaris from other sources


Jepson eFlora USDA PLANTS Profile (LECU2) Photos on Calflora Photos on CalPhotos Google Images Photos on iNaturalist	ITIS Original Publication citation International Plants Names Index Search efloras.org (Flora of North America) BONAP Distribution Map Consortium of California Herbaria 2	Add an Observation Location Suitability Distribution by County
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Suggested Citation

Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals. [web application]. 2024. Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database [a non-profit organization]. Available: https://www.calflora.org/ (Accessed: 11/21/2024).