Vicia unijuga A.Braun

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m high. It is covered with dense soft silky hairs. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. There are 2 leaflets and they are 3-10 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. The flowers are purple or purple-red. They are showy and 1.5 cm long. They occur as 6-8 in a group in the axils of leaves. The pod is 3-4 cm long and brown. The seeds are a flattened round shape and brown.

Forests, forest margins, thickets, scrub, hedges, mountain and hill slopes and summits, damp valleys, pastures, grassy places, river and stream banks, ravines, rocky places on slopes, roadside banks, field margins; at elevations below 4,000 metres.

The young leaves are eaten with oil and salt. The seeds are occasionally eaten.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.