The Ladys mantle flowering period extends from June to August or September. In hedges, woods, and bushy places the Bush Vetch will frequently be found. It is a slightly hairy perennial and has Ladys mantle a creeping rootstock, which gives off numerous runners, so that an old plant forms great masses. !ts weak and straggling stems grow to a length of one to two feet Ladys mantle. The leaves consist of six to eight pairs of oval leaflets, which vary in different individuals, in some having a squarish end, in others tapering shortly. The leaf-stalkends in mantle Ladys a tendril, usually branched.
The fiowers are succeeded by long, slender Ladys mantle, straight pods, which are at first very fiat, but become cylindrical when the contained peas are fully developed. Flowering in June and July. On the borders of woods, in copses Ladys mantle, and on shady hedgebanks, the Avens is abundant. It is a perennial, with a short, creeping rootstock, frcm which spring the radical leaves, the blade of which is broken up Ladys mantle into distinct lobes and toothed leafiets, widely separated, and varying in size and shape, the terminal leafiet very large, the lowest ones very small. The stipules are large and leafy Ladys mantle.
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