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Lathyrus japonicus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Willdenow

Common Names

• Beach-pea
• Circumpolar Pea
• Sea Pea
• Heath Pea
• Seaside Pea
• Hai bin shan li dou (Pinyin)
• China Yaponskaya
• Gesse Maritime
• Strand-Platterbse

Geographical Habitats

• Hebei
• Jiangsu
• Liaoning
• Shandong
• Zhejiang - China
• Denmark France
• Japan
• N. Norway
• NW. Russia
• California - USA

Natural Habitats

• Coastal.

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Britain)
• May-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Aug (China)

Herbaceous perennial tendril climber or creeping herb with 25mm red, pink to blue or purple flowers in racemes to 5 flowers, glabrous seed pod brown or purple-brown to 50mm, simple or branched tendrils, glabrous perennial, inflorescence up to 15 flowers, pinnate leaves, mucronate leaflets, angular stems

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Norton 1996
• FOC
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• NYBG
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS