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Narrow-leaved Vetch
Vicia sativa subsp.nigra
Peasair chaol
Family: Fabaceae

Flowering time: May-July. Annual.

Flowers usually bright-pink, 12-16mm. Brownish-black ripe fruit, 25-40mm.
Leaflets of upper leaves abruptly narrower than lower. Branched tendrils.
Slender, to 75cm. Similar to Common Vetch.

Sandy, gravelly ground. Native.

Identification uncertain

     
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