Index / Search / Lathyrus hirsutus
§1 Plant
Lathyrus hirsutus L.
vernacular Caley pea — species · Fabaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fabaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Lathyrus
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 286 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.8–6.2
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Yellow-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- High
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Low
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 18,160
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 286 counties across 19 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Benton 05007
- Bradley 05011
- Clark 05019
- Columbia 05027
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Hempstead 05057
- Independence 05063
- Jefferson 05069
- Lawrence 05075
- Lee 05077
- Little River 05081
- Madison 05087
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Newton 05101
- Phillips 05107
- Poinsett 05111
- Polk 05113
- Pope 05115
- Prairie 05117
- Pulaski 05119
- Randolph 05121
- St. Francis 05123
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
California view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 43 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Jackson 22049
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Amite 28005
- Benton 28009
- Calhoun 28013
- Carroll 28015
- Claiborne 28021
- Clay 28025
- Coahoma 28027
- Covington 28031
- DeSoto 28033
- Forrest 28035
- Franklin 28037
- Hinds 28049
- Holmes 28051
- Humphreys 28053
- Issaquena 28055
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lauderdale 28075
- Leake 28079
- Lee 28081
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Marshall 28093
- Montgomery 28097
- Neshoba 28099
- Newton 28101
- Noxubee 28103
- Oktibbeha 28105
- Panola 28107
- Pearl River 28109
- Pike 28113
- Pontotoc 28115
- Quitman 28119
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Sharkey 28125
- Simpson 28127
- Sunflower 28133
- Tallahatchie 28135
- Tippah 28139
- Tishomingo 28141
- Tunica 28143
- Union 28145
- Washington 28151
- Webster 28155
Missouri view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 4 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Bowie 48037
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Cass 48067
- Collin 48085
- Dallas 48113
- Denton 48121
- Gillespie 48171
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Hopkins 48223
- Houston 48225
- Hunt 48231
- Jasper 48241
- Limestone 48293
- Madison 48313
- McLennan 48309
- Montgomery 48339
- Polk 48373
- Red River 48387
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- Tarrant 48439
- Travis 48453
- Trinity 48455
- Walker 48471
Virginia view state ↗ 46 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Amherst 51009
- Brunswick 51025
- Buckingham 51029
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Gloucester 51073
- Goochland 51075
- Grayson 51077
- Greensville 51081
- Halifax 51083
- Hanover 51085
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- Lancaster 51103
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mathews 51115
- Mecklenburg 51117
- Middlesex 51119
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Northampton 51131
- Nottoway 51135
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Richmond 51159
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/LAHI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5356382 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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