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Photographer: Richard Bauer
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Family Fabaceae
Vicia cracca L.
bird vetch, cow vetch
Vicia: the classical Latin name for this genus
cracca: Latin name applied by Rivinius to this plant, the Italian name Cracca and French name Vesce craque
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | climbing or trailing, perennial, up to 3' long forb |
| Flower: | blue, 5-parted, 1/2" long, calyx base not swollen; inflorescence a crowded, long-stalked cluster (raceme) with 20-50 stalked flowers; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | pod |
| Leaf: | pinnately-divided into 5-11 pairs of linear leaflets, leaf tips with tendrils |
| Habitat: | fields, roadsides, meadows |
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