Lathyrus latifolius

Common Name: 
everlasting peavine, sweet pea, broad-leaved everlasting-pea, everlasting pea
Scientific Name: 
Lathyrus latifolius L.
Family Name: 
Fabaceae (Leguminosae) - Pea or Bean Family
Identification Notes
Life Cycle
introduced perennial, reproducing by seed and rooting stems
Stems
climbing or sprawling with tendrils, herbaceous, multiple from base, smooth and often glaucous, strongly winged
Stems of Everlasting Peavine
Stems of Everlasting Peavine
Stems of Everlasting Peavine
Leaves
alternate, compound, two leaflets, lanceolate to oval, smooth, entire, branched tendril between leaflets, winged petiole, stipules linear to lanceolate and two-parted upper larger
Leaves of Everlasting Peavine
Leaves of Everlasting Peavine
Flowers
5- petaled and pea-like, reddish purple to pink or white; axillary racemes, long stalked
Flowers of Everlasting Peavine
Flowers of Everlasting Peavine
Flowers of Everlasting Peavine
Seed Pods
flat, smooth, green becoming brown with age, split and curl at maturity
Seedpods of Everlasting Peavine
Seedpods of Everlasting Peavine