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Vicia sepium - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sepium - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sepium - Pod - Click to enlarge!

Pod; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sepium - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sepium - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sepium - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; The Burren, Clare, Ireland; 8/2012 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 2010
Date of entry: 10.09.2012
Last update: 11.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fabales (244)

        Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)

          Genus: Vicia (8)

            Epithet: sepium L. (3)

Synonym: Vicia basilei Sennen & Mauricio

sepium => from saepes: 'hedge, fence'

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, white

External links

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