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Pea

Scientific name	Pisum sativum
Common name	Pea
Type	Vegetables
Variety	Annual
USDA Zone hardiness	1 - 11
Exposure	Full sun
Height	3 to 6'
Spread	3 to 6'

Peas are a frost-hardy, cool-season vegetable that can be grown throughout most of the United States. Peas are generally classified as garden peas (English peas), snap peas and snow peas (sugar peas). Garden pea varieties have smooth or wrinkled seeds. The wrinkled-seeded varieties are generally sweeter and a favorite home gardeners. Snow peas are meant to be harvested when the pods are tender pods before the peas inside develops. The Southern pea (cowpea) is a warm-season vegetable that is grown like a bean rather than a pea. Peas thrive in cool moist conditions, in warm climates like California plant in the fall, winter or spring.