Hi, I am a Brit who has been over To NC, and GA a few times and spend a lot of time in woods and fields. I have seen a plant that seems to be a vine growing up and along wires in an old house front yard. I was told that this vine is not native to where I saw it and also that there was a plant like it in Rabun County(GA). It looks like a Sweetpea but more pea like than a Sweetpea. Flowers are pea like and light purple/dark purple with reddish or pink in them. I just took a few photos of the one small part I was able to find. Can anyone tell me what it is? I used to grow Sweetpeas and so I know it is not.
This is a pea, not a bean. See the tendrils and the round leaves? Bean leaves are triangular and the vines themselves wind rather than having tendrils. Looks like Lathyrus odoratus to me. Why does this not look like sweet pea to you? What is making it too "pea-like"? Perhaps what you know as sweet pea is really Lathyrus latifolius? Of course I'm just speculating.
"Lathyrus odoratus " Uh uh... it's not that. I've grown those and this is not like them. The scent is nothing like an sweetpea I have ever had. This plant has grown in the same place for over 40 years and never from new seeds each time. The plant dies back late fall and there is nothing to see of it thru winter. Come spring/early summer it's there again. Where it grows no seed can grow. All rock and no soil in between each plant......... it grows along the surface from a few plants and where the wires are missing, it grows along the ground also. I have looked under it and it is not seperate plants, it is just a few plants that grow for yards.
