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Lathyrus vernus
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Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
Common name:
spring pea, bitter vetch, spring bitter vetch, spring vetch
Family:
Fabaceae
Distribution:
Europe to Iran & Siberia
Habitat:
Forest, Grassland, Rocky areas, Shrubland
IUCN Red list:
Least concern
Hardiness:
(H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)
Life form:
Herbaceous perennial • Perlysiau lluosflwydd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Lathyrus (LAY-thy-russ): From the Greek lathyros (pea or pulse).
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
vernus (VER-nus): Latin; of spring.
Dyfarniadau / Awards:
RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Description:
A compact, clump-forming herbaceous perennial to 45cm in height, with dark green, pinnate leaves and short racemes of up to 6 flowers 2cm in length, reddish-purple, shaded greenish-blue with age.
Links:
Royal Horticultural Society
Locations
1:
Boulder Garden/Yr Ardd Glogfeini 08
(BOU08)
• Accession: 2011-0547 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
2:
IWGB14-Inner Walled Garden Quadrant B Bed 14/Yr Ardd Fewnol Cwadrant B Gwely 14
(IWGB14)
• Accession: 2005-0940 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
3:
IWGB14-Inner Walled Garden Quadrant B Bed 14/Yr Ardd Fewnol Cwadrant B Gwely 14
(IWGB14)
• Accession: 2006-0201*B • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
4:
IWGB17-Inner Walled Garden Quadrant B Bed 17/Yr Ardd Fewnol Cwadrant B Gwely 17
(IWGB17)
• Accession: 2011-0547 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual