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Vicia sativa
Annual herb, a distant member of the vine and pea family, with hollow, four-sided, hairless to hairy stems which can reach two meters in maximum length. The leaves are each made up of a few pairs of linear, lance-shaped, oblong, or wedge-shaped, needle-tipped leaflets up to 3.5 centimeters long. The pealike flowers occur in the leaf axils, solitary or in clusters of up to three. The flower corolla is 1 to 3 centimeters in length and whitish to bluish to red or bright pink-purple in color. The fruit is a legume pod up to 6 or 7 centimeters long which is hairy when new and smooth later. It contains up to 12 seeds.
Spotted in a Holm oak forest
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/320 sec.; f/9; ISO Speed Rating: 400. Exposure Bias: -1 EV. Focal Length: 300.0 mm.
Spotted on May 14, 2013
Submitted on Jun 25, 2013
2 Comments
Gracias Marta. Tiene además una cierta elegancia, verdad?
Me encanta la flor del guisante..tan sencilla y bonita a la vez!