Meadow Vetchling

Meadow Vetchling - Lathyrus pratensis

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Description

Clambering plant to 120 cm with winged stems. Leaves with tendrils, and one pair of leaflets, linear lanceolate to elliptical. Flowers yellow 10 to 16 mm, in long stalked racemes.

Designation

Indicator Species - Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy.

Identification difficulty
ID checklist (your specimen should have all of these features)

One pair of leaflets

Habitat

Rough grassland, roadside verges.

When to see it

May to August.

Life History

Perennial.

UK Status

Very common throughout Britain.

VC55 Status

Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 584 of the 617 tetrads.

  • HAPeacock
    Gilroes Spinney
    05 July 2012
  • Graham Calow
    Sapcote
    27 June 2013
  • David Nicholls
    Rutland Water, Egleton NR
    05 June 2009
  • Graham Calow
    Sapcote
    31 July 2007
  • HAPeacock
    Gilroes Cemetery Extension
    05 July 2012
  • David Nicholls
    Ashby Canal, Shackerstone
    15 September 2012
  • David Nicholls
    Bagworth Heath Woods
    16 May 2013

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