Tufted vetch
Vicia cracca
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Conservation Status
Green, least concern
Best Time to See
Flowers June to August.
Natural Habitat
Grassy places, bushes, meadows and hedgerows.
Scrambling plant with 10-40 blue violet flowers in a one sided cluster. Leaves pinnate with 6-10 pairs of leaflets and branched tendrils at leaf tip.
Distribution
Common throughout UK apart from the Scottish Highlands.
Did you know?
Local names include Cat-peas, Cow-vetch and Fingers-and-thumbs (the pods end in a nail or claw).
A member of the pea family (legumes), Common Vetch is able to make its own nitrates. This makes it useful as a soil-fertilising plant and is also often used as livestock fodder
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