1. Evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pea-like flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania
   "Flat pea provides ground cover in Australian gardens";
   - Platylobium formosum
    
2. European perennial with mottled flowers of purple and pink; sometimes cultivated for fodder or as green manure
   "Farmers incorporated flat pea into their crop rotation as green manure";
   - narrow-leaved everlasting pea, Lathyrus sylvestris

Derived forms: flat peas

Type of: bush, everlasting pea, shrub

Part of: genus Lathyrus, genus Platylobium, Lathyrus, Platylobium

Encyclopedia: Flat pea