Broad-leaved sweet pea
Lathyrus latifolius L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.4 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Fabaceae
Also called Perennial pea, Pharoah's pea, Everlasting sweet pea, Perennial sweet pea, Everlasting peavine
Formerly Pisum latifolium
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- EC. & S. Europe, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, pink, purple, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- LATLAT
- French
- pois vivace, pois de Chine, gesse à larges feuilles
- German
- Breitblättrige Platterbse, Breitblatt-Platterbse
- Dutch
- Brede lathyrus, Brede Lathyrus
- Polish
- groszek szerokolistny
- Ukrainian
- Чина широколиста
- Swedish
- rosenvial, rosenvial/vingvial
- Lithuanian
- plačialapis pelėžirnis
- Czech
- hrachor širolistý
- Russian
- Чина широколистная
- Estonian
- laialehine seahernes, Laialehine seahernes
- Spanish
- albejana, Lenteja silvestre
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Lathyrus latifolius (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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