Common names:

• Austrian winterpea  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• Caley-pea  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• hairy vetchling  (Source: F BritStace) - English
• rough-pea  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• singletary-pea  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• winterpea  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• gesse hérissée  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• gesse velue  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• rauhhaarige Platterbse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• cicerchia irsuta  (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
• guija velluda  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• luddvial  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder ()
• Animal food: forage ()
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of grass-pea (based on crossability barriers with Lathyrus sativus fide Pl Breed (NY) 106:323, 325. 1991)
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran (n. & w.), Iraq (one collection), Lebanon, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.), Pakistan (Kashmir)

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Azores (Faial, Terceira)]

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Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image