Rough Pea
Lathyrus hirsutus
Characteristics
- Flowers - Often in pairs with white center and purple rear petals.
- Foliage - Leaves composed of 2 leaflets with tendril.
- Stem structures - Wings with peduncles and petioles at the nodes, occasional hairs.
- Fruit - Hirsute with glands at the base of each hair.
Typical sunny environment.
Flowers showing sepals, white keel, purple petals and slightly hirsute pedicels.
Front of a double leaflet and petiole.
Underside of a double leaflet with no visible hairs.
Double leaflet, petiole, tendril and peduncle at the stem node.
Stem and wings around a node.
Tendril with a triple split, leaflet pair and peduncle with flower head. Typical pattern.
Hirsute fruit with glands at the base of the hairs.
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