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Definition of Perennial pea
1. Noun. Perennial climber of central and southern Europe having purple or pink or white flowers; naturalized in North America.
Group relationships: Genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus
Generic synonyms: Everlasting Pea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perennial Pea
Literary usage of Perennial pea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"perennial pea. Fig. 1243. Stem winged, 4-8 ft.: Ifts. ovate-elliptic or ...
This is the common perennial pea, and one of the hardiest and most easily ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"The faintly colored alcoholic solutions of the Rose or the perennial pea, ...
The pink blossoms of the perennial pea, when picked and allowed to wilt, ..."
3. How to Make a Flower Garden: A Manual of Practical Information and Suggestions by Wilhelm Miller (1903)
"Gaillardia aristata. Goldenrod, Solidago spp. Poppy, Iceland, Papaver nudicaule.
Six perennials for rocky places: perennial pea, Lathyrus latifolius. ..."
4. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing, and by William Cobbett (1845)
"A small crimson perennial pea, very troublesome to the husbandman of the south
of France, and of Germany, where it is what the birdseed is in England. ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... L. (EVERLASTING or perennial pea.) Tall perennial with broadly winged stems;
leaves and stipules coriaceous and veiny ; petioles mostly winged; ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... 496; oil, 458, 495, 496. Peppermint tree, 627. Peppers, 147, 148; notes, 7;
temperature for, 280. Pepys quoted, 103. perennial pea for farm garden, ..."
7. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing, and by William Cobbett (1833)
"A small crimson perennial pea, very troublesome to the husbandman of the south
of France, and of Germany, where it is what the birdseed is in England. ..."
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