Common Name: everlasting peavine, sweet pea, broad-leaved everlasting-pea, everlasting peaScientific Name: Lathyrus latifolius L.Family Name: Fabaceae (Leguminosae) - Pea or Bean FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced perennial, reproducing by seed and rooting stems Stemsclimbing or sprawling with tendrils, herbaceous, multiple from base, smooth and often glaucous, strongly winged Leavesalternate, compound, two leaflets, lanceolate to oval, smooth, entire, branched tendril between leaflets, winged petiole, stipules linear to lanceolate and two-parted upper larger Flowers5- petaled and pea-like, reddish purple to pink or white; axillary racemes, long stalked Seed Podsflat, smooth, green becoming brown with age, split and curl at maturity