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Tufted Vetch

©Neil Wyatt

Tufted vetch

Enw gwyddonol: Vicia cracca
A scrambling plant, Tufted vetch has violet flowers. It is a member of the pea family and can be seen along woodland edges, on scrubland and grassland, and at the coast.

Species information

Ystadegau

Height: up to 2m

Statws cadwraethol

Common.

Pryd i'w gweld

June to September

Ynghylch

Tufted vetch, also known as 'Cow vetch' or 'Bird vetch', is a member of the pea and clover family (legumes). It lives happily in many different habitats, including woodland edges, scrubland, coastal margins and grassland, and can be seen climbing over hedges and banks. The spikes of bluish-violet flowers appear between June and August.

Sut i'w hadnabod

A scrambling plant, Tufted vetch has long, grey-green leaves that grow in a symmetrical row from long, trailing stems; curled tendrils used for climbing and grasping often spiral from the ends. Its flowers are pinky-purple tube shapes that turn up into a hood at the end and grow in dense clusters along one side of the flower spike.

Dosbarthiad

Widespread.

Habitats

Roeddech chi yn gwybod?

The seed pods of Tufted vetch look like very small peapods and turn black when they are ripe.

Sut y gall bobl helpu

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