Lathyrus odoratus |
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common sweet pea, gesse odorante, sweet pea, sweet vetchling |
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Habit | Herbs annual, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
Stems | broadly winged, climbing, basally branched 1–3 times, 8–30 dm. |
Leaves | 2–6 cm, rachises winged; tendrils well developed; stipules lanceolate, 10–25 × 2–6 mm, smaller than leaflets; leaflets 2, blades ovate or obovate, 15–50 × 10–40 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pustulose-hirsute. |
Inflorescences | 2–4-flowered, 10–20 cm. |
Flowers | 20–25 mm; calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes linear-triangular to lanceolate, equal to tube; corolla white, pink, purple, violet, or blue, banner erect, blade much longer than claw, wings longer than keel; ovary densely pustulose-hirsute, style rotated 90° from ovary axis. |
Legumes | 50–70 × 8–15 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Lathyrus odoratus |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. |
Elevation | 50–400 m. (200–1300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CT; IL; IN; KY; ME; MI; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV; MB; NF; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico (México), Asia (China, India), n, e Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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Discussion | Lathyrus odoratus is cultivated as an ornamental and is an occasional escape. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 732. (1753) |
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