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Tufted vetch
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TUFTED VETCH Vicia Cracca Family LEGUMINOSAE In hedges and bushy places, throughout the sunarner the bright blue flowerclusters of the Tufted Vetch may be seen. It is a perennial, with a creeping rootstock, with weak annual stems rising to a length of two to four feet. It climbs by means of the branched tendrils at the ends of the leaf-stalks. The leaves are pinnate, with many narrow, oblong leaflets. They vary in size and may be as much as four inches long. The flowers are numerous, varying from ten to thirty, all directed to one side of the raceme, which has a stalk several inches in length, though the footstalks of the individual flowers are very short. The flowers themselves are about half an inch long, bright blue, and hanging, somewhat, by their footstalks. They are succeeded by a flattened, beaked seedpod, an inch or less in length and containing six or eight seeds. The flowering period extends from June to August or September.

 

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After flowering the petals tum brown vetch Tufted, and when the seed is set the petals do not fall off, but simply dry up and wrap themselves around the seed-pod. The flowering period extends from May to vetch Tufted September. An annual. To be found in dry pastures, meadows and by the roadsides. Abundant in Britain generally but rare in northern Scotland.
After fertilization the flower-s talk erects itself vetch Tufted and the carpels develop into leathery follicles which split and disclose a large number of greenish-black seeds. Flowering from May to July. Wandering through or round our cornfields any vetch Tufted time during summer, one is almost sure to find this beautiful flower. It is an annual, tall and erect, the stems clothed with white hairs, and attaining a height of vetch Tufted four or five feet. The leaves are long and narrow, four or five inches long, and not unlike the leaves of the corn-plants surrounding them.

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