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Description
Family Pea Family Fabaceae
4250 IMAGE (C) 2007 COLIN DUKE
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Common on roadsides and as a garden weed, scrambling over other vegetation.
Flowers c 10-12 mm long.
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.
