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19th July 2007, North Walney Island, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
A sprawling rift of Tufted Vetch. |
10th July 2008, Carrington Mess, Greater Manchester. | Photo: © RWD |
Growing amongst Rosebay Willowherb. |
14th August 2008, Adlington, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
Tufted Vetch can climb sprawlingly up to 2 metres high. |
14th August 2008, Adlington, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
And always has a straggly appearance. |
21st May 2020, East Lancs Rd, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Showing how the flowers are on the same side as the leaves, which alternate sides on the main stem. The topmost leaves are smaller (but there are slightly more of them) than those near the bottom. The size of the leaflets also diminishes the further from the main stem they are. [This specimen is too floppy to stand upright on its own] |
14th August 2008, Adlington, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
The narrowish leaves are in 8 - 12 upwardly-angled opposite pairs. |
19th July 2007, North Walney Island, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The purple/mauve flowers with the standard roughly as long as the claw. They rarely open wide enough to see the innards properly. |
21st June 2007 | Photo: © RWD |
Apart from the uppermost, the flowers are in adjacent pairs, all on the same side of the stem. |
14th August 2008, Adlington, Lancashire. | Photo: © RWD |
The hairlessseed pods eventually turn brown. |
25th June 2005, Peak Forest Canal, Strines, Derbyshire. | Photo: © RWD |
The climbing tendrils are paired up. |
5th July 2014, Rimrose Valley Country Pk, Waterloo, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Occupies and clambers up and spreads through vegetation up to 4 feet but hesitates in denser shrubs where light levels are much poorer. Likes to sunbathe.. |
20th Sept 2016, Leeds & L/pool canal, Parbold, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Will scramble much higher (here about 9 feet) providing it can get enough sun, which it can here on both sides of a metal mesh fence. Fewer flowers here allow one to see the leaves and their climbing tendrils properly. |
3rd July 2015, Gravel Quarry, Moses Gate, Bolton, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A rather long specimen. Flowers can be deep blue or purple-pink, but usually both at the same time. Evaporating rain drops on inflorescence. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Southport, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Here deep purple-pink. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Southport, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
They don't like showing their backsides. Stems slightly ribbed/striated and with very short hairs. |
13th Sept 2018, Upholland, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The sepal cups are very short, their teeth shorter at the top but much longer underneath to support the flower. Stems with short hairs, this specimen with a hairy tail at the termination. |
3rd July 2015, Gravel Quarry, Moses Gate, Bolton, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaf consists of a rachis (stem) supporting between 8 to 12 somewhat haphazardly-paired leaflets. Leaflets slightly shorter near the end of the rachis. |
27th July 2012, Marshside, Southport, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaflets extended oval, slightly broader nearer the supporting rachis (stem), haphazardly opposite (or so). The leaflets are on very short petioles (stalks) and have a short acuminate point at the end, which is slightly asymmetrically set. |
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