Sweet Pea

The sweet pea is a scented annual climber of the pea family, native to Sicily, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands. Cunningham gives it a feminine, Venus, water character and the powers friendship, chastity, courage and strength. Fresh flowers worn attract people and friendships, carried or held they make everyone tell the truth, they preserve chastity in the bedroom, and worn they give courage and strength. His health key marks it D+ and X, meaning not to be taken internally in high doses and not recommended for internal use. Wikipedia adds that seeds of the genus Lathyrus are toxic if eaten in quantity. Both are set out in the safety notes. Neither statement is made about this species alone by Wikipedia, so the toxic flag is not set.