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Lathyrus latifolius

(Broad-Leaved Everlasting Pea)

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Common Names

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Common Names in Arabic:

Al Gulbân El Kabîr

Common Names in English:

Breitbl„ttrige Platterbse, Breitbl„ttrige Platterbse, Broad-Leaf Peavine, Broad-Leaved Everlasting Pea, Broad-Leaved Everlasting-Pea, Broadleaf Peavine, Everlasting Pea, Everlasting Peavine, Everlasting-Pea, Everlasting-Pea (Usa), Perennial Pea, Perennial Peavine, Perennial Sweet Pea, Perennial Sweetpea, Perennial-Pea, Perennial-Pea (Usa), Sweet Pea

Common Names in Estonian:

Laialehine Seahernes

Common Names in French:

Gesse a Larges Flles, Pois à Bouquet, Pois Vivace

Common Names in German:

Breitblattrige Platterbse, Grosse Platterbse

Common Names in Italian:

Pisello a Mazzetti, Pisello Vivace

Common Names in Japanese:

Hiroha No Renri Sou

Common Names in Romanian:

Mănerei De Pădure

Common Names in Russian:

China Shirokolistnaya

Common Names in Swedish:

Rosenvial

Common Names in Turkish:

Her Dam Taze Bizelya

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Lathyrus

Annual or perennial herb, climbing or straggling, stem frequently winged . Leaf mostly paripinnately compound , rachis ending in a tendril , rarely in a bristle or leaflet , leaflets 2-many or rarely absent, entire; stipules usually large, semisagittate or entire. Inflorescence an axillary raceme or solitary. Calyx regular to irregular. Vexillum mostly broad with a short claw . Wing free or coherent to the keel. Stamens diadelphous 9+1 or monadelphous , vexillary stamen free or connate with the tube , anthers uniform . Ovary subsessile or stipitate , style dorsally compressed , linear to spathulate, pubescent on the upper side, rarely glabrous , stigma terminal or capitate. Fruit compressed, 2-many seeded.

A genus with about 130 species, widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, S. America and Africa.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: HerbClimbing: ClimbingGrowth Form: RhizomatousShape and Orientation: Decumbent

Flowers: Bloom Period: Late SpringFlower Color: Purple • Flower Conspicuous: Yes

Seeds: Seed per Pound: 8000 • Seed Spread Rate: Slow • Seedling Vigor: Low • Fruit/Seed Abundance: Low • Fruit/Seed Color: Brown • Fruit/Seed Conspicuous: No • Cold Stratification Required: No

Foliage: Foliage Color: Green • Foliage Porosity Summer: Moderate • Foliage Porosity Winter: Porous • Foliage Texture: CoarseFall Conspicuous: No • Leaf Retention: No

Size/Age/Growth

Active Growth Period: Spring and Summer • Growth Rate: Moderate • After Harvest Regrowth Rate: Slow • Mature Height (feet): 2.0 • Size: 6-8' tall. • Vegetative Spread Rate: Moderate • Lifespan: Lifespan

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,585 meters (0 to 5,200 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: PerennialCoppice Potential: No • Progagated by Bulbs: No • Propagated by Bare Root: No • Propagated by Container: No • Propagated by Corms: No • Propagated by Cuttings: No • Propagated by Seed: Yes • Propagated by Sod: No • Propagated by Sprigs: No • Propagated by Tubers: No • Fruit/Seed Period Begin: Summer • Fruit/Seed Period End: Summer • Fruit/Seed Persistence: No

Growth

Culture: Space 3-6" apart.

Soil: Adapted to Medium Textured: Adapted to Medium Textured Soils • Adapted to Coarse Textured Soils: Yes • Anaerobic Tolerance: None • Salinity Tolerance: None • CaCO3 Tolerance: High • Minimum pH: 5.8 • Maximum pH: 7.5 • Fertility Requirement: Medium

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade. • Shade Tolerance: Intolerant

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High • Minimum Precipitation: 26 • Maximum Precipitation: 60 • Moisture Use: Low

Temperature: Minimum Temperature (F): -38 • Minimum Frost Free Days: 140 • Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Lathyrus megalanthus Steud.
  2. Lathyrus membranaceus C. Presl
  3. Lathyrus sylvestris L. latifolius (L.) Bonnier & Layens
  4. Lathyrus sylvestris L. var. latifolius (L.) Fiori
  5. Lathyrus sylvestris latifolius Bonnier & Layens

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Sp. pl. 2:733. 1753

Name verified on 28-Oct-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Apr-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Lathyrus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 875 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. acutifolius · L. acutus · L. cicera · L. aegeus · L. aegyptiacus · L. affinis · L. albidus · L. albus · L. alefeldii · L. algericus · L. allardi · L. allardii · L. alpestris · L. alphaca · L. altaicus · L. amoenus · L. amphicarpos · L. andicolus · L. angulatus (Angled Peavine) · L. angustifolius · L. anhuiensis · L. annus · L. annusis · L. annuus (Annual Yellow Vetchling) · L. annuus red (Annual Yellow Vetchling) · L. anomalus · L. aphaca (Ranken Platterbse) · L. aphyllus · L. arizonicus · L. armenus · L. armitageanus · L. articulatus · L. arvensis · L. asphodeloides · L. atropatanus · L. aurantius · L. aureus (Golden Pea) · L. auriculatus · L. axillaris · L. azureus · L. basalticus · L. bauhini · L. bauhinii · L. belinensis (Sweet Pea) · L. berterianus · L. berteroanus · L. biflorus (Two Flowered Lathyrus) · L. bijugatus (Latah Tule Pea) · L. bijugatus sandbergii · L. bijugatus var. sandbergii · L. bijugus · L. binatus · L. bitlisicus · L. blephalicarpos · L. blephalicarpus · L. blepharicarpus (Syrian Vetchling) · L. boissieri · L. bolanderi · L. brachycalyx (Intermountain Peavine) · L. brachycalyx brachycalyx (Bonneville Vetchling) · L. brachycalyx var. eucosmus · L. brachycalyx zionis · L. brachycalyx zionis var. zionis · L. brachyodon · L. brachyodus · L. brachyphyllus · L. brachypterus · L. bradfieldianus · L. brownii · L. cabreranus · L. cabrerianus · L. californicus · L. campestris · L. canescens · L. cassius · L. caudatus · L. chilensis · L. chius · L. chloranthus (Sweet Pea) · L. chrysanthus · L. cicer · L. cicera (Flat-Podded Vetchling (Uk)) · L. ciliatidentatus · L. ciliatus · L. cilicicus · L. ciliolatus · L. cinctus · L. cirrhosus · L. cirrosus · L. climenum · L. clymenum (Jointed Pea (As L Articulatus)) · L. clymenum articulatus (Cicercha Purpurina) · L. coccineus · L. coerulescens · L. colchicus · L. collae · L. coriaceus · L. coriaceus aridus · L. cornutus · L. crassipes

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 14, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Lathyrus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 150.930 meters (495.177 feet), Standard Deviation = 171.210 based on 4,546 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009