Vetch

Description:

My guess here is this one would be a Common vetch or Vicia sativa, a sprawling annual, nitrogen-fixing leguminous herb with attractive pink flowers of some 1.5-2cm in diameter.

Habitat:

This one is a very common one among the spontaneous spring growth in our garden. The garden itself is a typical Mediterranean garden, terraced and covered in Mediterranean fruit trees and mainly spontaneous plants, most of them melliferous (pic No 4). The garden is located in urban environment, at outskirts of Dubrovnik, on lower slopes of Srdj mountain.

Notes:

An interesting plant from a nutritive point of view, and apparently used as such since Neolithic: young shoots and leaves can be eaten as vegetables, cooked or in salads. The flowers are also edible, and can be used for decoration in salads. It was also reported that seeds are nutritious, (hence the ancient cultivation of this plant) but do not have a pleasant taste - they are sometimes used as flour. (adapted from Wikipedia, French edition)