Spring pea: illustrated description
Like all flowering plants, spring peas is classified as an angiosperm, which in turn is a vascular plant (phylum: tracheophyta).
- Leaf:
- Its apex (= the tip of it) is pointy.
- Entire blade (= its outer edge is smooth)
- Flowers:
- It’s a mix of blue (turquoise) and purple flowers.
- When they grow, the flowers are first purple, and then turn into (turquoise) blue.
- The spring pea’s flowers look like little bells.
- I found multiple spots of them in an (old) forest so it needs a bit of shade to grow (specially in Provence where it’s very sunny).
Spring pea: scientific classification
- Domain: biota
- Kingdom: plantae
- Phylum: tracheophyta
- Class: euisetopsida
- Order: fabales
- Family: fabaceae
- Genus: lathyrus
- Species: Lathyrus vernus
