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