The Awesome Raptor, Meet the Red-Tailed Hawk
Do Not Touch These Beautiful Leaves!!
Narrow-Leaved Montia: The 48th Flower of Spring!
Swamp Onion: The 49th Flower of Spring!
Lovely Little Weed: the Cut-Leaved Geranium Blosso…
A Trio of Tiny Beauties: Nutall's Toothwort Blosso…
I'm A Star!!
Seepspring Monkeyflower: The 50th Flower of Spring…
Details, Details
Turkey Vultures Flying Free
Bi-Colored Flaxflower: The 51st Flower of Spring!
Hiding
Pink Steelstem Vinola: the 52nd Flower of Spring!…
Monster Mushroom!
Ms. Beefcake
Star of Bethlehem Lily: The 52nd Flower of Spring!
Changing Forget-Me-Not: The 53rd Flower of Spring!
Our Friend, The Silkworm Moth
Giant Silkworm Moth Front View
Our Own Mothra, the Giant Silkworm Moth!
Enchanting Mushroom
Common Brodiaea: The 54th Flower of Spring!
I See Me
The Tiny Wolf Spider & The Photoshop Challenge!
Nature's Water Pearls 2
The Breathtaking Bleeding Heart
Many-Flowered Bedstraw: The 46th Flower of Spring!
EEEK!! It's a Tremor's Graboid!!
Small-flowered Tonella: The 45th Flower of Spring!
Lovely Miniature Lupine Blossoms
Pastel Henderson's Shooting Stars
This is My World
Pacific Madrone Buds: 44th Flower of Spring!
Pumpkin's Bright Eye
Pistil Power!
Miniature Lupine: The 43rd Flower of Spring!
Rolled-Up Rusty Popcornflower Stem
String of Seeds
Wild Blue Flax: The 42nd Flower of Spring!
Happy Shiny Mushroom Family
Oregon-grape Blossoms
Manzanita Blossoms
Mysterious Yellow Beauty: The 41st Flower of Sprin…
The Amazing Striped Orb Weaver Spider!
Purple Deadnettle: The 40th Flower of Spring!
Keywords
Authorizations, license
-
Visible by: Everyone -
All rights reserved
-
179 visits
Common Vetch: The 47th Flower of Spring!
All over our property, we have these flowers blossoming everywhere right now, and I just love them! For years I thought these were called Wild Sweetpeas until I did some research and realized that a) this is called Common Vetch, and b) we have a close relative which is entirely different (and beautiful), and c) we don't even HAVE Wild Sweetpeas growing here!! :D :D And Wild Sweetpeas aren't even very close relatives...I couldn't have been more incorrect all these years! :D Silly me!! :D I have to say, it's been really great doing this Flowers of Spring project because I'm learning SO MUCH about the plants and flowers here! (animals too!)
Common Vetch is considered a weed, but in livestock fields, it's a very nutritious addition to the grass they eat. In fact, this relative of the pea is specifically planted for this very reason, and is known to fatten up cattle better than most grass or other feed. It can actually be too rich and if there's too much vetch growing in a field, animals can get colic and other stomach problems by overeating. In ancient times, humans used to eat vetch, and remains dated back to Neolithic times have shown vetch as part of the diet of the time! The same evidence has been found in ancient Egypt, Rome, and the Bronze Age. Incidentally, just because it's usually only fed to livestock, the tips of new stems and the flowers are said to be quite nice to eat in salads!
If you would like to know more about this flower, Wiki has a page here: Wiki: Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :)
Common Vetch is considered a weed, but in livestock fields, it's a very nutritious addition to the grass they eat. In fact, this relative of the pea is specifically planted for this very reason, and is known to fatten up cattle better than most grass or other feed. It can actually be too rich and if there's too much vetch growing in a field, animals can get colic and other stomach problems by overeating. In ancient times, humans used to eat vetch, and remains dated back to Neolithic times have shown vetch as part of the diet of the time! The same evidence has been found in ancient Egypt, Rome, and the Bronze Age. Incidentally, just because it's usually only fed to livestock, the tips of new stems and the flowers are said to be quite nice to eat in salads!
If you would like to know more about this flower, Wiki has a page here: Wiki: Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Thanks to all of you who have visited and have left comments and favorites! I try to go to all of your pages within a day or two and is a highlight for me to see your beautiful photography! :)
- Keyboard shortcuts:
Jump to top
RSS feed- Latest comments - Subscribe to the comment feeds of this photo
- ipernity © 2007-2024
- Help & Contact
|
Club news
|
About ipernity
|
History |
ipernity Club & Prices |
Guide of good conduct
Donate | Group guidelines | Privacy policy | Terms of use | Statutes | In memoria -
Facebook
Twitter
Sign-in to write a comment.