Vicia hirsuta

Trailing, climbing or ascending annual herb; stems 20–80 cm long, angular, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves 2–8 cm long excluding the usually pinnate tendril; leaflets 8–20, linear to lanceolate, 5–25 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, glabrous or lower surface sparsely appressed-pilose; stipules linear, 2–4 mm long, 1–4-toothed on one side. Flowers 2–8, pedunculate; peduncle about half as long as subtending leaf; pedicel c. 1 mm long; calyx campanulate, 1.5–3 mm long, sparsely pubescent, teeth linear-subulate, subequal, longer than calyx tube; corolla 3–5 mm long, pale blue or pink; standard broadly ovate, hardly longer than wings, limb longer than claw; keel shortest, blue-tipped. Pod oblong-rhomboid, 6–12 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, compressed, grey-brown to brown-black, pubescent; seeds 1–3, usually 2, subglobose, c. 2.5 mm long, compressed, brown, often mottled. Flowers mainly Jun.–Feb.