| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Scattered across the state in 5 counties. Another specimen (Guilford County) was from a garden.
Native of the Mediterranean and Western Asia; in N.A. most states except northern prairies and Rocky Mountain states. | |
| Abundance | Rare. | |
| Habitat | Fallow cropfields, field with Vicia, waste ground, disturbed logging road. | |
| Phenology | Flowering March-May. | |
| Identification | Garden Pea is familiar to those who grow vegetables. It is annual, sprawling or climbing up to 6 feet long, glabrous, the leaves glaucous and elliptical. Flowers grow 1-5 in axils, the standard and keel rose to lilac, the wings dark purple. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | This is the plant that was tracked for generations by Gregor Mendel, resulting in the discovery and first description of genetic inheritance.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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