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Lathyrus annuus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Annual Yellow Vetchling
• Fodder Pea
• China odnoletnyaya
• Kanis Matkvartzana

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Azores
• Balearic Islands
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Ethiopia
• Corsica - France
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Sardinia - Italy
• Jordon
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Malta
• Morocco
• Portugal
• Russia
• Spain
• Syria
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Scrambling or climbing annual glabrous vine with narrowly winged stems, , single pair of leaflets with trifid tendrils. 1-3 flowered axillary inflorescence of 18mm yellow or orange-yellow flowers with red veins, toothed calyx to 6mm long, yellow corolla to 12mm long, unwinged pod to 80mm x 12mm light brown marked with a network of strenghtening veins.

Further References

• Norton 1996
• Mobot
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• ILDIS