Common name:
Bush vetch
Family:
Scientific name:
Vicia sepium
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 70 cm
Habitat:
Rough grassland, woodland margins
Flowers:
Small clusters of up to six heads, attached by short stalks. Flowers are up to 15 mm long, pink to dull purple in colour, crossed by darker veins. The sparsely hairy calyx is divided into five unequal lobes; the lower two are longer than the upper three
Fruit:
Hairless pods, up to 25 mm long, ageing to black
Leaves:
Pinnately divided into between three and nine pairs of relatively broad, lance-shaped leaflets, flat or notched at the apex, hairy along the edges, and cordate at the base; with a branched tendril at the tip, and stipules below
Season:
April to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
