Photographs: Co. Cork

Meadow Vetchling Lathyrus pratensis Peasairín buí Family: Fabaceae Flowering time: May-August. Perennial. Native. The racemes of 4-10 yellow flowers are followed by flattened black seed-pods. Leaves with a pair of bluish-green, acute linear-lanceolate leaflets and branched or unbranched tendrils. A slightly downy plant with climbing or straggling, unwinged stems to 120cm. Grows in rough grassland, ditches and on roadsides and hedgebanks. Similar: Yellow Vetchling, L. aphaca. Triangular stipules instead of leaflets and solitary flowers. Pre 1970 records from NE Ireland.

Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis, Pisbuí