Description: A very common, vigorous, climbing vetch of hedges, scrub, thickets etc., with pale purplish-blue pea flowers and a blackish peapod containing between six and ten brown seeds. The leaf is typically vetch-like: pinnate with terminal branched tendrils. This and V. cracca are the commonest vetches of roadside hedges.

All names: Vicia sepium L.

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

iNaturalist: Vicia sepium at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.