Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis, Pisbuí
Photographs: Co. Cork

Meadow Vetchling
Lathyrus pratensis
Peasairín buí
Family: Fabaceae

Flowering time: May-August. Perennial. Native.

The racemes of 4-10 yellow flowers are followed by flattened black seed-pods. Leaves with a pair of bluish-green, acute linear-lanceolate leaflets and branched or unbranched tendrils. A slightly downy plant with climbing or straggling, unwinged stems to 120cm.

Grows in rough grassland, ditches and on roadsides and hedgebanks.

Similar: Yellow Vetchling, L. aphaca. Triangular stipules instead of leaflets and solitary flowers. Pre 1970 records from NE Ireland.

Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis, Pisbuí

Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis, Pisbuí
Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis, Pisbuí

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