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Hairy Vetch
Vicia villosa |
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| Family |
Bean (Fabaceae) |
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| Bloom |
Late Spring, Summer |
| Habitat |
Meadows, sunny |
| Status |
Non-Native |
| Cycle |
Perennial |
| Height |
2-3 feet |
| Flower |
Tightly packed clusters of
miniature pea flowers strung along one side of the flowering spike. Color is
lavender to blue-violet; bicolored. |
| Leaf |
Leaves are pinnately compound
with 10-20 fuzzy leaflets. The central fuzzy leafstalk terminates in a
thread-like tendril that may be branched. A pair of stipulates at the
base of the leaf stalk is hairy and shaped like half an arrowhead. |
| Notes |
Stems are fuzzy,
upright to reclining and fruit is an elongated, flat pod. |
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