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§1 Plant

Lathyrus latifolius L.

vernacular perennial pea — species · Fabaceae


USDA
LALA4
GBIF
5356517
Rank
species
perennial pea (Lathyrus latifolius)
Platephotograph · John BrewCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus
Lathyrus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 532 counties across 34 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 532 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 532 counties across 34 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 I
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 27 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Georgia view state ↗ 7 I
Illinois view state ↗ 37 I
Indiana view state ↗ 6 I
Kansas view state ↗ 7 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 36 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 6 I
Maine view state ↗ 4 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I
Michigan view state ↗ 30 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I
Missouri view state ↗ 21 I
Montana view state ↗ 6 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 I
New York view state ↗ 24 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 51 I
Ohio view state ↗ 27 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 41 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 7 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 29 I
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I
Virginia view state ↗ 85 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 12 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 13 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LALA4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5356517 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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