Yellow Pea / بريد الحية

جُلْبان أَفّاق / شَوارِب البُسَيْن / حَمام البُرج / طقوش الحية / برج الحمام / بريد الحيه / جلبان عفقة

Lathyrus aphaca L.

Flowers, March. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Toxic
Blooming period
February to April
Seed collection period
May to July

Description

Perenniality
Annual
Petal colour
  • Yellow
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Annual
  • Climber

Scientifc data

Genus
Lathyrus
Family
Fabaceae
Wikidata item
Q158592
GBIF Item
Lathyrus aphaca L. (5356649)
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least concern

References

  1. Machaka Houri, N., Houri, A.(2014). Wild Flowers of Lebanon with Special Focus on Key Biodiversity Areas.Beirut:Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  2. Houri, A., Machaka Houri, N. (2001). photographic guide to wild flowers of Lebanon. Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  3. Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-31. <temperate.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lathyrus+aphaca>
  4. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  5. Lathyrus aphaca L. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-24.
  6. Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
  7. Crowfoot, Grace Mary Hood. From Cedar to Hyssop; a Study in the Folklore of Plants in Palestine. London, Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto, The Macmillan Co., 1932.

Citation

Lathyrus aphaca L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/537 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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