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Definition of Marsh pea

1. Noun. Scrambling perennial of damp or marshy areas of Eurasia and North America with purplish flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsh Pea

Literary usage of Marsh pea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"MYRTLE-LEAVED marsh pea. (Man. p. 567 ; IF /. 2218.) In moist or wet grounds, NB to Man., south to NC and Tenn.—Pennsylvania : MONROE ; LUZERNE ..."

2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... marsh pea, Marsh Vetchling, Wild Pea. Closely allied to this is the Myrtle-leaved marsh pea, ..."

3. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"MARSH VETCHLING—marsh pea— ... or marsh pea is a graceful climbing plant with purple flowers and long slender leaflets, ... The marsh pea is ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"marsh pea. WING-STEMMED WILD PEA. Stem slender, 1-3 ft. long, ... MYRTLE-LEAVED MARSH- PEA. Has smaller, obtuse Ivs., broader and larger stipules, ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Lathyrus palustris L. marsh pea; Marsh-vetch; Vetchling Herbaceous perennial vine Shores, moist meadows, sand plains, swamps and thickets. ..."

6. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"... leaflets lanceolate to linear MARSH VETCHLING. (L. palustris.) b Stem not winged; leaflets oval to oblong MYRTLE-LEAVED marsh pea. ..."

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