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Lathyrus fulvus, the tawny pea, is a low-growing annual pea from the eastern Mediterranean and Levant, closely related to the garden pea. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it grows best in a sunny spot with well-drained soil and a cool, dry season.
Lathyrus fulvus (many authorities continue to use its synonym Pisum fulvum), the tawny pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean; the eastern Aegean Islands, Turkey, the Levant, and the Sinai Peninsula; and it has been introduced to the US state of Maryland. An annual, it is a crop wild relative of the garden pea Lathyrus oleraceus.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lathyrus fulvus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
