Species · Fabaceae

Pea

Pisum sativum. Fabaceae, genus Pisum. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

Rank
species
Names
40 in 15 languages
Numbers
13 (13 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.

English: Common Pea, common-pea, Field Pea, Garden Pea, garden-pea, Green Pea, Pea, Sugar Pea.

In other languages

  • Catalan: pesolera
  • Czech: hrách setý, hrach siaty
  • Danish: Almindelig ært, Ært
  • Dutch: Erwt
  • Finnish: herne
  • French: petit-pois, pois, Pois cultive, Pois cultivé, Pois cultivé, Petit pois, Pois rond
  • German: Erbse, Futter-Erbse, Garten-Erbse, Kultur-Erbse
  • Italian: Pisello
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): ert
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): ert
  • Portuguese: ervilha, ervilha-forrageira
  • Swedish: ärt, herne
  • Welsh: Pys yr Ardd, Pysen, Pysen yr Ardd
  • nor: aaker-ærter, ert, vilde ærter

Names with no language recorded: wan dou, wandu, 완두.

Where it is recorded

Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

Growth stages

  • Initial: about 15 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted May, Europe)
  • Crop development: about 25 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted May, Europe)
  • Mid-season: about 35 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted May, Europe)
  • Late season: about 15 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted May, Europe)

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Initial

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.5published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Mid-season

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)1.15published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Late season

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)1.1published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Phenophases observed by the USA National Phenology Network

10 phenophases are tracked for this species and refreshed nightly, as stage triggers: All leaves withered, Flowers or flower buds, Fruits, Initial growth, Leaves, Open flowers, Recent fruit or seed drop, Ripe fruits.

Cultivar groups with their own numbers

The species row above carries the species-level bands. These groups differ enough in the sources that they keep their own rows.

Peas (Dry/Seed)

  • Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio): 0.3 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
  • Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio): 0.4 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
  • Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio): 1.15 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.