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Lathyrus sylvestris L.

Narrow-leaved everlasting pea (en), Gesse des bois (fr), Grande Gesse (fr), Gesse sylvestre (fr), Grande gesse (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Lathyrus

Characteristics

Scrambling perennial; stems glabrous, angled, broadly winged. Lvs glabrous; tendril branched in upper lvs, sometimes simple in lower lvs; leaflets in 1 pair, usually lanceolate to linear, rarely narrowly elliptic, narrowly acute to acuminate, 50-130 mm long; veins parallel; stipules lanceolate to linear, with 1 narrow basal lobe, < 1/2 as wide as stem (c. 1-3 mm wide), (5)-10-20 mm long. Infl. > lvs, (2)-5-8-flowered; pedicels 4-10 mm long. Calyx glabrous, slightly or not gibbous at base; calyx teeth unequal, narrowly triangular, < tube. Corolla purple-pink, 13-17 mm long. Pod glabrous, brown, 8-15-seeded, 40-70 mm long; seeds reticulate-rugose; hilum ?-1/2 of circumference.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It can grow 2 m tall. The stems have broad wings. The leaves have a single pairs of leaflets with branched tendrils. The flowers are green to yellow with a violet tinge. They are 7-15 mm long. The pods are 7 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 1.75
Root system creeping-root
Rooting depth (meter) 0.3
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
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Thickets and woods.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 3-4
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-9

Usage

The flowering shoots are eaten boiled and seasoned with oil and lemon. They are scrambled with eggs and fried with onions. The young seeds are used in soups. Caution: Some Lathyrus species can be poisonous.
Uses breeding cover plant environmental use experimental purposes forage gene source green manure medicinal oil ornamental poison vertebrate poison
Edible flowers shoots
Therapeutic use Poison (unspecified)
Human toxicity weak toxic (seed)
Animal toxicity toxic (seed)

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -20
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Lathyrus sylvestris habit picture by Kateřina P (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris habit picture by Michael Andresek (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris habit picture by Jean-Francois Julien (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Lathyrus sylvestris leaf picture by jonathan tamaillon (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris leaf picture by Ilaria Mosti (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris leaf picture by Thomas Andreef (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Lathyrus sylvestris flower picture by Annika K (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris flower picture by Rossi Sveva (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris flower picture by supersloot samuele (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Lathyrus sylvestris fruit picture by euphrosiine M (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris fruit picture by Jacques Maréchal (cc-by-sa)
Lathyrus sylvestris fruit picture by Daniel Irlbek (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Lathyrus sylvestris world distribution map, present in Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Canada, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova (Republic of), Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, and United States of America

Conservation status

Lathyrus sylvestris threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502035-1
WFO ID wfo-0000213824
COL ID 6P346
BDTFX ID 38026
INPN ID 105266
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Lathyrus platyphyllus Lathyrus silvestris Lathyrus noeanus Pisum silvestre Lathyrus pyrenaicus Lathyrus intermedius Lathyrus angustifolius Lathyrus sylvestris subsp. angustifolius Lathyrus sylvestris subsp. platyphyllos Lathyrus sylvestris var. ensifolius Lathyrus sylvestris var. intermedius Lathyrus sylvestris var. oblongus Lathyrus sylvestris

Lower taxons

Lathyrus sylvestris subsp. pyrenaicus
WorldFloraDB 2024