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Yellow pea or yellow vetchling
Lathyrus aphaca
About
Lathyrus aphaca, known as the yellow pea or yellow vetchling, is an annual species in the family Fabaceae with yellow flowers and solitary, pea-like fruits. It originated in the Middle East and has spread throughout Europe and beyond as a weed of cultivated fields and roadsides. The fruits are eaten as a supplement to diets in some parts of South Asia but are narcotic and potentially toxic in large quantities.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lathyrus aphaca
- Slug
- lathyrus-aphaca
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Lathyrus
- Species
- aphaca
- Wikidata QID
- Q158592
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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