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Lathyrus sativus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Indian Pea
• Riga Pea
• Dogtooth Pea
• Khesai
• Blue Chickling Pea
• Chickling Pea
• Grass Pea
• Chickling Vetch
• Khesari (Nepali)
• Jia shan li dou (Pinyin)
• White Pea
• Khensari (India)
• Pe-chinbaung or Pe-Sali (Myanmar)
• Kashari Shak (Bangladesh)
• Blue Sweet Pea
• Indian Vetch
• White Vetch
• Almorta or Alverjón (Spain)
• Guixa (Catalonia)
• Chícharos (Portugal)
• Cicerchia (Italy)
• Sebere (Eritrea)
• Guaya (Ethiopia)
• Khesari (India)

Geographical Habitats

• Bulgaria
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Moist open places

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

• Autumn

Annual glabrous herbaceous scrambling trifid-tendril vine with narrowly winged glabrous stems. Leaves with single pair of leaflets 36mm x 12mm. Solitary axillary flowers or racemes to 2 flowers, 25mm white, pink, blue or violet flowers, sometimes with pink veins, calyx 6mm with teeth, standard to 18mm wide. Glabrous narrowly winged seed pod brown to 40mm x 12mm.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Huxley 1992
• Norton 1996
• Ribatzky 1997
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• Tanzamin Ara