Description: Tufted vetch is one of the commonest flowers of hedgerows, heaths, scrub and coarse grass. It is a scrambling perennial plant with the usual vetch-like pinnate leaf, tendrils, and one-side spikes of bright purple-blue pea-flowers. The fruit is a small peapod containing between four and eight seeds.

This and V. sepium are the two commonest vetches of roadside hedges.

All names: Vicia cracca L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Vicia cracca at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Vicia cracca at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.