Vetch

Family	Pea or Bean (Fabaceae)
Bloom	Late spring, summer
Habitat	Sun, meadows
Status	Non-Native
Cycle	Perennial
Height	2-3′
Flower	Tightly packed clusters of miniature pea flowers stung along one side of the flowering spike. Color is lavender to blue-violet. It is bi-colored.
Leaf	Leaves are pinnately compound with 10-20 fuzzy leaflets. The central fuzzy leafstalk terminates in a thread-like tendril that may be branched. A pair of stipulates at the base of the leafstalk is hairy and shaped like half an arrowhead.
Notes	Stems are fuzzy, upright to reclining and fruit is a flat, elongated pod.

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