Tufted Vetch - Vicia cracca

Clambering plant to 2 metres though often less. Leaflets 6 to 15 linear to oblong. Flowers bluish violet, 10 to 12 mm in a one sided, long stalked raceme.

Rough grassy places, roadside verges, etc.

June to August, sometimes later.

Perennial.

Common throughout most of Britain.

Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 474 of the 617 tetrads.