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§1 Plant

Lathyrus pusillus Elliott

vernacular tiny pea — species · Fabaceae


USDA
LAPU3
GBIF
5356747
Rank
species
tiny pea (Lathyrus pusillus)
Platephotograph · Layla source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 97 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 97 Introduced · 0 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 97 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 1 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 13 N
Florida view state ↗ 2 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 5 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 14 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 N
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N
Oregon view state ↗ 1 N
Texas view state ↗ 47 N
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LAPU3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5356747 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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