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Vicia sylvatica

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Wood Vetch
• Garoshak Lyasny
• Goroshek Lesnoi
• Vesce Des Forets
• Wald-Wicke
• Zluchy Garokh

Geographical Habitats

• Britain
• Denmark
• SE. France
• Germany
• Siberia - Russia
• Switzerland

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• woodland
• coastal
• montane woodland

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Great Britain)

Fruiting Times

Trailing or climbing glabrous perennial with much-branched tendrils, axillary racemes to 70mm of up to 18 flowers, flowers 20mm white with blue or purple veins, whitish wings & standard, varigated blue , pale blue keel fruit a pod to 30mm long, mucronulate leaflets

Further References

• FOBI
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS