Seasonal Wild Flowers

Slender Tare

Vicia parviflora

Fabaceae

June to August

It is found in the southerb half of the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Slender Tare

It grows on calcareous, clay soils - wet in winter and hot and dry

in summer, in grassy places, such as unimproved meadows,

banks, hedgerows, verges and coastal cliffs.

Slender Tare is a native, scrambling, annual, nitrogen-fixing

herb growing up to 60cm.

The flowers are bluer and larger (up to 9mm) than in Hairy or

Smooth Tare, and there are up to 4 per flowerhead.

Leaves are in 2 to 4 pairs and resemble soft needles.

Slender Tare, grassland, Cogden, Dorset

Flowerhead, leaves, tendril

Closeup of flowers from below

Flowers from side

Leaves

Leaves and tendril