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Lathyrus hirsutus
Also called Hairy Vetchling, Rough Pea, Winterpea, Singletary Pea, Austrian Winterpea, Hairy Pea, Hairy Singletary Pea
Caley pea is a climbing annual wild pea with pink, blue or bicolored flowers, grown mainly as a cool-season forage or cover crop. It does best in cool, mild conditions and is sown in autumn or early spring.
Lathyrus hirsutus is a species of wild pea known by several common names, including Caley pea, singletary pea, hairy vetchling, and Austrian winter pea. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and much of Asia, and it is known from other continents, including North America, as an introduced species. This is an annual herb producing a winged stem and leaves each made up of two leaflike leaflets with a branching, coiled tendril. The inflorescence holds one or two pink, blue, or bicolored pea flowers each 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide. The fruit is a dehiscent legume pod covered in hairs with each hair growing from a minute bulbous base. The rest of the plant is generally hairless.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lathyrus hirsutus 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.
