Family: Fabaceae Hairy Tare Ervilia hirsuta (Vicia hirsuta) Flowering time: May-August. Annual Grows in rough grassland and disturbed ground on neutral soils, also found on sea-cliffs and among shingle. Found throughout England and Wales, less frequent in Scotland and Ireland. A slender, scrambling plant with short racemes of very small whitish-lilac flowers followed by hairy seedpods which turn black when ripe. Leaves have 4-10 pairs of linear-oblong, blunt-ended leaflets with tendrils at the tip.

   




Hairy Tare, Vicia hirsuta
Dorset. July 2012