Transformational Gardening


Perennial Pea (Everlasting Vetchling, Everlasting Pea) (Lathyrus latifolius)

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June 6, 2012 Southeastern, New Hampshire I have been trying to figure out this plant since last year. I can recognize pea family flowers more easily, so I just had to figure out the genus and species:
  • Leaf blades compound.
  • Leave palmately compound or with 3 or fewer leaflets.
  • Plants herbaceous or sub-woody.
  • Leaves pinnately or palmately compound with 3 or fewer leaflets.
  • Leaflets untoothed (entire).
  • Leaflets even-pinnate (terminal leaflet modified into a tendril). (Lathyrus genus)
  • Leaves with 2 or more well-developed leaflets.
  • Leaves with 2 leaflets.
  • Inflorescence with 4-10 flowers. Plants perennial with rhizomes.
  • Corollas 14-25 mm long, stems conspicuously winged.
  • Stipules 3-10 mm wide and lanceolate to ovate. Corollas 13-20 mm long.