RHS Other common names
blue-flower'd lathyrus, chichling-vetch, chickling pea, chickling vetch, dogtooth pea, grass pea, khesari, Riga pea
Annual Biennial
A scrambling, annual, nitrogen-fixing climber, up to 1.2m high, with angular, winged stems, mid-green leaves divided into two narrowly elliptic, pointed leaflets, up to 15cm long and up to 1cm wide, and solitary flowers, up to 2.5cm across, usually sky-blue with a pink and white spot on the upper petal, sometimes pink or white, in late spring and early summer; the seeds are safely edible if they are first soaked overnight in lime water and then boiled
Position
Full sun
Soil Types
Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
Max Height
1-1.5 metres
Max Spread
0.1-0.5 metres