Lathyrus tuberosus L.

FABACEAE

- Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Lathyrus tuberosus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 732 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Tuberous sweetpea

English name: earth-chestnut

English name: earthnut-pea

Spanish name: arveja tuberosa

French name: gesse tubéreuse

Italian name: Cicerchia tuberosa

German name: Knollenplatterbse

Grown habit: Vine, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Lathyrus
Species:

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Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Lathyrus tuberosus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Svizzera, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lathyrus tuberosus
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Lathyrus tuberosus
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Lathyrus tuberosus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Lathyrus tuberosus
Credit: Photo by Patrizia Ferrari

Lathyrus tuberosus
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Lathyrus tuberosus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Lathyrus tuberosus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, IA, IL, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (MB, ON, QC)

Distributional map for Lathyrus tuberosus L.
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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Lathyrus venetus (Mill.) Wohlf. [591]
2) Lathyrus venosus Muhl. ex Willd. [317]
3) Lathyrus venosus Muhl. ex Willd. ssp. arkansanus (Fassett) C.L. Hitchc. [131]
4) Lathyrus venosus Muhl. ex Willd. var. intonsus Butters & H. St. John [130]
5) Lathyrus vernus (L.) Bernh. f. roseus Beck [89]
6) Lathyrus vestitus Nutt. ssp. vestitus [300]
7) Lathyrus vestitus Nutt. var. violaceus (Greene) Abrams [146]
8) Laurera madreporiformis (Eschw.) Riddle [211]
9) Laurus camphora L. [94]
10) Lavandula spica L. [298]

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