Winter Vetch, Hairy Vetch, Woolly Vetch
Vicia villosa (var. varia and var. villosa)
The photo above shows a close-up of the secund (on-sided) raceme and a pinnately compound leaf of winter vetch as seen on Cabbage Hill along the old highway east of Pendleton, OR.....................June 25, 2008.
The photo above shows a close-up sideview of the flower of winter vetch as seen on Cabbage Hill along the old highway east of Pendleton, OR.....................June 25, 2008. Note the long, slender and hairy calyx lobes and the strongly bulged base of the calyx.
The photo above shows a close-up frontal view of the flowers of winter vetch as seen on Cabbage Hill along the old highway east of Pendleton, OR.....................June 25, 2008.
The photo above shows a close-up of the glabrous "pea" pods of winter vetch as seen on Cabbage Hill along the old highway east of Pendleton, OR.....................June 25, 2008.
The photo above shows a close-up view of the pinnately compound leaf and terminal tendrils of hairy vetch as seen in lithosol soils along the old highway to the west of Fishtrap Lake in eastern Washington...................June 2, 2008.
The photo above shows a close-up view of the secund or one-sided inflorescence of hairy vetch as seen in lithosol soils along the old highway to the west of Fishtrap Lake in eastern Washington...................June 2, 2008.
Paul Slichter