Morphological and physiological traits of wild vetch – Lathyrus vernus L. (Bernh.)

Abstract

The paper presents morphological and physiological traits of wild vetch – Lathyrus vernus L. (Bernh.) the kin of the cultivated pea. Its variability and presence in the flora of Serbia is also emphasized. Content determinations of the crucial nutritive elements contained in dry matter helped determine the average concentrations of N, P, Ca, K and Na inleaf, stalk and in pod. The leaf and stalk were reported to averagely contain 2,82% N, 0,087% P, 1,879% Ca, 1,88% K and 0,079% Na, respectively. Photosynthetic pigments in leaf contained about 5,8 mg/g dry matter of the chlorophyll a, around 2,0 mg chlorophyll b, and 1,95 mg/g dry matter of carotenoids, which was considerably higher than the contentsestablished in stalk.