Leaves

Seed, Seedling or Root

Pods





PEA - Pisum santivum


AFFECTING LEAVES:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Yellow, curling leaf margins, wilted plants; flowers and pods drop
Potato leaf hoppers
Yellow, distorted new growth
Tarnished plant bug (Lygus pratensis)
Yellow leaves, slow growth
Nitrogen deficiency
Yellow, withered, thickened and curled leaves; flowers may drop
Pea aphids
Yellow crinkled, mottled, curled leaves
Mosaic virus
Mottled, yellow, crumpled leaves; rosetting
Pea enation virus
Yellow leaves, stems yellow inside; dwarfing and wilting
Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum)
Velvety, white growth on leaves
Downy Mildew (Peronospora effusa)
Powdery, white leaf spots
Powdery mildew
White stippled leaves which later become bronzed
Mites
White or translucent, irregular tunnels in leaves
Leafminers
Leaf holes on young plants
Striped and spotted Cucumber beetles (Acalymma vittata)
Large holes in leaves
Armyworms (Euxoa auxiliaris)

AFFECTING SEED, SEEDLING, OR ROOT:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Seedlings clipped off at soil line
Cutworms (Noctuidae spp.)
Stems rot near soil line and plant collapses; seeds do not germinate
Damping off
Poor germination, damaged seedling stem; deformed, spindly seedlings
Seed corn maggots

AFFECTING PODS:

CONDITION
CAUSE
Blossoms drop
Excessive heat or rain
Blossoms drop or pods fail to develop
Copper and/or molybdenum deficiency
Brown spot or cavity on seeds
Manganese deficiency
White, powdery spots on pods
Powdery mildew
Holes in blossoms, tunnels in seeds
Pea weevil adults


Missoula County Extension Office; Missoula, Montana 59808 - Updated for 2006