Sweet pea
സ്വീറ്റ് പീ
Lathyrus odoratus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- 76 cm
Fabaceae
Also called Sweetpea, Guisante de Olor
Formerly Lathyrus cyprius, Lathyrus odoratus-zeylanicus, Pisum odoratum
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Italy, SiciliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orange, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Chícharo de flor, Chorreque
- French
- Gesse odorante, Pois de Senteur, Gesse Odorante
- Czech
- hrachor vonný
- Estonian
- lõhnav lillhernes
- Norwegian Bokmål
- blomsterert
- Swedish
- luktärt
- Finnish
- tuoksunätkelmä
- Arabic
- بازلاء حلوة, بسلة الزهور
- Japanese
- ジャコウエンドウ, スイートピー
- Russian
- Душистый горошек
- Chinese
- 香豌豆
- Chinese (China)
- 香豌豆
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lathyrus odoratus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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