Common name:
Hairy tare
Family:
Scientific name:
Vicia hirsuta
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK, except the Scottish Highlands and Ireland
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, hedgebanks, on calcareous or neutral soils
Flowers:
In elongated clusters of up to nine heads, along a hairy stalk, square in cross-section. Flowers are white to pale lilac in colour, around 5 mm long, with a hairy, five-lobed calyx in which the lobes are approximately equal in length, and longer than the calyx tube
Fruit:
Short, downy pods, usually containing two seeds
Leaves:
Pinnately divided into between four and ten oblong, blunt-tipped leaflets, with a tendril at the tip
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
