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Vicia villosa Roth                              Wooly vetch

Very hairy plant, 0.5m to 2 m long, clambering; leaves to 15 cm long with 10-20 leaflets; leaflets linear to oval, 1.5-2 cm long; racemes densely 20-50-flowered, strongly secund; flowers 15-18 mm long, reddish purple to blue; calyx 1/3 to 1/2 the length of the corolla, gibbous at the base; upper calyx segments long and tapering, the lower 3 teeth exceeding the tube; pod 2-3 cm long, several seeded; introduced and escaped

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