Scientific Name: Vicia cracca.
English Name: Tufted Vetch.
French Name: La Vesce craque; Vesce de Cracovie; Pois a crapaud (='toad pea'); Vesce a épis (='spear vetch').
5 Key Characters:
Habitat: Hedges, woodland fringes, scrub.
Flowering Period: April-May-June-July-August.
Status: Common. One of the caterpillar food plants of the Wood White Leptidea sinapis butterfly.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
Photographs numbered from left to right, top to bottom. 1 on a trackside bordering woodland on a limestone spur near Preuilly-sur-Claise, April.
English Name: Tufted Vetch.
French Name: La Vesce craque; Vesce de Cracovie; Pois a crapaud (='toad pea'); Vesce a épis (='spear vetch').
5 Key Characters:- climbing plant up to 2 m.
- individual leaflets 10 - 25 mm long, arranged in 8 - 13 pairs.
- 10 - 40 flowers on long spikes (racemes) 2 - 10 cm with stalks about the same length.
- tendrils branched.
- only the bottom pair of calyx (green 'cup' the flower sits in) teeth long.
Habitat: Hedges, woodland fringes, scrub.
Flowering Period: April-May-June-July-August.
Status: Common. One of the caterpillar food plants of the Wood White Leptidea sinapis butterfly.
Photographed by Loire Valley Nature:
Photographs numbered from left to right, top to bottom. 1 on a trackside bordering woodland on a limestone spur near Preuilly-sur-Claise, April.
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