Gateshead Birders

Flora

Bitter-vetch


Lathyrus linifolius

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Photo © Gordon Pollinger
2005

15-50cm tall. Red-purple flowers turning to red-brown seed pods. A perennial herb of moist, infertile neutral and acidic soils in heathy meadows, lightly grazed pastures, grassy banks and open woodlands. Flowering: April to July

 


 



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