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Lathyrus japonicus
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species of legume
Species
Least Concernbeach pea
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Common Name: sea pea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,256
- With media
- 1,783
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- QUE, RSA, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, NY, SDSU, UWW
- Recorded in
- Canada, United States
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- taxon common name
- 海滨山黧豆
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- short name
- L. japonicus
- taxon author citation
- Willd.
- taxon range
- Zhoushan Archipelago
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Encyclopedic overview
Lathyrus japonicus, the sea pea, beach pea, circumpolar pea or sea vetchling, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to temperate coastal areas of the Northern Hemisphere, and Argentina.
It is a herbaceous perennial growing trailing stems 50–80 cm (20–31 in) long, typically on sand and gravel storm beaches. The leaves are waxy glaucous green, 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long, pinnate, with 2-5 pairs of leaflets, the terminal leaflet usually replaced by a twining tendril. The flowers are broad, with a dark purple standard petal and paler purple wing and keel petals; they are produced in racemes of up to twelve flowers.
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