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Carl Farmer |
Common on roadsides areas of rough vegetation, scrambling over other plants. Flowers c 10-12 mm long. ID: Distinctive for the large number of flowers, 10-40 densely packed in a one-sided spike at the end of a long bare stalk. Flowers deep blue-purple, not pale like Wood Vetch. Leaflets normally 8-12 pairs, leaves end in branched tendrils. Other features: Calyx teeth very unequal, the upper ones minute. |
