Flowering Kidney vetch growing on the coast
Native perennial scattered across the UK on dry grassland often near the sea. ‘Vulneraria’ in its Latin name means 'healer of wounds' - a reflection of its past medicinal use. Anthyllis vulneraria reaches 5–40 centimetres (– in) of height. The stem is simple or more often branched. The leaves are imparipinnate, glabrous or with scattered hairs on the upper face and silky hairs on the underside. The flower heads are spherical in shape and 10–20 millimetres (– in) long. The flower are yellow in almost all sub-species, with the typical irregular shape of the flowers of legumes. Flowering takes place between June and September. The fruit is a legume. The fruits ripening takes place from July to October.
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Location: cocklawburn beach, northumberland, england, united kingdom,
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