Lathyrus sativus L.

Spice Fruit detail Flower Fruit In the field

Family: LEGUMINOSAE

Genus: Lathyrus

Catalan common name: Guixa. Guixeras. Guixes. Pedrarols.

Spanish common name: Almorta. Alverjón. Arvejo cantudo. Arvejote. Bichas. Cicércula. Diente de muerto. Guija. Muela. Pedruelo. Pinsol. Pito. Tito.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Tarragona.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Ibiza.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Chinese-Japanese

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Cultivated species. Cultivated and herbaceous zones. Sub espontaneous.

Characteristics: An annual crawling legume (up to 70 cm.). The stems are winged and the bifoliate leaves have a large divided tendril on the terminal part. The stipules are very showy, wide and semisagittate, normally with a tooth at the base. Flowers are solitary and longly pedunculate and whitish-blues in colour. The fruits are wider (8-20 mm.) than large, smooth with two wings at the ventral margin.