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Wood Vetch
Vicia sylvatica
Vicia sylvatica (syn. Ervilia sylvatica), known as wood vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus.
From the article Vicia sylvatica on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This species is a herbaceous perennial with climbing stems. The leaves have 4 to 12 pairs of leaflets and end in branched tendrils. The flowers are 15 to 20 mm long arranged in racemes of up to 18 flowers. The petals are white with purple veins and the fruit is a pod or legume with 4 to 5 seeds.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 371892.