Widespread wild pea

Scientific name: Vicia?cracca?Linn.

English name: Bird?Vetch

Family name: Leguminosae

Genus: Wild pea Vicia

Annual or perennial sprawling herbs, hirsute. Leaves pinnately compound with tendrils; leaflets 4-12 pairs, narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-2.7 centimeters long, 0.5-0.7 centimeters wide, apical protruding, base rounded, surface glabrous, abaxial surface pubescent; stipules needle-shaped. Racemes axillary, with 7-15 flowers; calyx obliquely campanulate, with 5-lobed teeth, upper 2 teeth longer; corolla purple or blue; ovary glabrous, long-stalked, with yellow glandular hairs around apical part of style. Pods oblong, brown, 1.5-2.5 cm long, swollen, acute at both ends, stipitate; seeds 3-5, black. Flowering and fruiting May-September. /view/45252.htm