Vetch

Botanical name: Vicia sativa

Common names: Vetch

Characteristics

• Annual herbaceous perennial or climber.
• Grows in roadside verges, rocks, meadows, grassy habitat.
• Leaves: simple or divided into many small leaflets.
• Flowers (April to September) are similar to pea flowers. Pink to dark reddish purple with paler wings. Produced in small clusters.

Location

Poet’s path, stone wall