Flora of Northern Ireland
Vicia sepium
© Paul Hackney
Vicia sepium
© Fiona McCrory
Vicia sepium
(Map updated: March 2008)
 

A very common, vigorous, climbing vetch of hedges, scrub, thickets etc., with pale purplish-blue pea flowers and a blackish peapod containing between six and ten brown seeds. The leaf is typically vetch-like: pinnate with terminal branched tendrils. This and V. cracca are the commonest vetches of roadside hedges.

All names: Vicia sepium L.