The Flora of Hutton Roof : Vicia sepium (Bush Vetch)

Lots of it whilst going along Slape Lane. Always looks beautiful yet in a sort of way scruffy appearance at the same time, buts that's down to its changing colours which make some of its flowers nice and bright (eg the ones at the top) whilst others (eg the ones at the bottom or branched flowers) look as though they could be dying, but that is not really the case it is purely down to the flower colour variations ranging from a white, or a cream, or a rust, or shades of blues and purples within the same plant. You will see examples of this within my large selection of photos below.

The leaf always show a fine bristle point (mucro) to the tip of each leaflet, and when you look close (hand lens) you will notice that each leaflet has small bristle hairs down the sides to each leaflet all pointing away from the main leaf stem, and at the end of the full row of leaves it usually finishes off with branched tendrils. Photos of tendrils shown near bottom.

Vicia sepium (Bush Vetch)
Photo: Slape Lane, Burton In Kendal, 25th April 2019
You dont see many like this one above were most of the colours are the same.