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Flowers: April -
August
A tall, scrambling,
usually hairy, perennial plant up to 60 cm high. It has pinnate
leaves (leaves made up of smaller leaflets) with 3-9 pairs of
leaflets ending in a tendril. The flowers grow in short
spikes of 2-6 purplish-blue flowers. They are pollinated by bees.
The seeds grow in a pod.
Bush Vetch grows on
slightly acid to calcareous soils in rough grassy places, woodland
margins, hedges, scrub, track and roadsides, etc. The plant is
very common throughout Britain and Ireland, but scarce in parts of
the east.
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