Flowers for the garden
Forest vetch
L. sylvestris
Family Fabaceae. Forest vetch is found along forest edges and in thickets throughout the European part of Russia and in the Caucasus.
Perennial herbaceous plant, reaching 1-2 m in height, with a branched creeping rhizome. Stems - climbing by means of leaf tendrils, winged. Leaves pinnate with one pair of lanceolate leaflets and with sagittate lanceolate stipules. Flowers large, pink-raspberry, arranged in a sparse raceme. A good nectar plant, a pasture forage plant. Flowers from June to September. Included in regional Red Books.
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