vetch, spring
| COMMON NAME: | Vetch, spring | |
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| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | Vicia lathyroides | |
| FAMILY: | Fabaceae | |
| LIFECYCLE: | Annual | |
| FEATURES: | Small winter annual species. Pinnately compound leaves. Leaflets <0.5 cm in diameter. Leaves with a grasping tendril at end of leaf. Flowers white to pink, small, solitary, bilaterally symmetrical. Producing a flattened short seedpod. |
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| DESCRIPTION: | Common along roadsides, pastures, and other infrequently mowed ares. Smallest, most diminutive of vetch species. Leaves narrow, thin. Forms a weak dense mat, weakly rooted. |
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