Lathyrus angulatus

Lathyrus angulatus is a species of wild pea known by the common name angled pea.

Lathyrus angulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Lathyrus
Species:
L. angulatus
Binomial name
Lathyrus angulatus

It is native to southern Europe and North Africa, and it is known from elsewhere as an introduced species.

This is an annual herb with a flanged, hairless stem. Each leaf is made up of two leaflike leaflets each a few centimeters long and very narrow. It has tiny coiling tendrils. The inflorescence holds a solitary flower on a long bristle-tipped peduncle with the flower situated midway. The purple pea flower is about a centimeter wide. The fruit is a hairless dehiscent legume pod.


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