Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Country of Origin: Holland
Days to harvest: 65

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 24 inches
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Pink and maroon fading to blue
Uses: Vegetable
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Sow in situ
Pollinators: Self

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Common names
  • Garden Pea
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lathyrus oleraceus
  • Synonym: Pisum sativum

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Location: Washington State
Date: 5/11/17

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