Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Peasair fhiáin
Photographs: Co. Cork and Co. Limerick

Bush Vetch
Vicia sepium
Peasair fhiáin
Family: Fabaceae

Flowering time: April-September. Perennial. Native.

Dull blue/pinky-purple flowers in clusters of 2-6 followed by seed-pods that ripen to black. Leaves end in a branched tendril. The oval leaflets are in 5-7 pairs, blunt at the ends with a small bristle and widest near base. A slightly hairy plant with more/less erect straggling stems. To 80cm.

Common in hedges, roadsides and open woodland throughout Ireland

Similar: Bitter Vetch, Lathryrus linifolius. Leaves have no tendrils

Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Peasair fhiáin

Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Peasair fhiáin

Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Peasair fhiáin
Bush Vetch, Vicia sepium, Peasair fhiáin

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