Seasonal Wild Flowers

Slender Tare

Vicia parviflora

Fabaceae

June to August

It is found in the southerb half of the country.

For a map see the National Biodiversity Network Gateway

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