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A bush vetch (Vicia sepium; Zaun-Wicke) flower blooms with its violet-purple petals delicately folded in the classic shape of a pea flower.
At the top of the image, a few blossoms of white bedstraw (Galium album; Weißes Labkraut) remain tightly closed, their tiny buds hinting at the white flowers soon to unfold.

#wildflowers #flowers #bush #vetch #zaunwicke #vicia #sepium #galium #album #labkraut

A bush vetch (Vicia sepium; Zaun-Wicke) flower blooms with quiet grace, its violet-purple petals delicately folded in the classic shape of a pea flower. The broad upper petal curves outward, while the paler wings and keel nestle beneath. Fine hairs line the slender stem, and the bloom stands out against a soft blur of meadow green. At the top of the image, a few blossoms of white bedstraw (Galium album; Weißes Labkraut) remain tightly closed, their tiny buds hinting at the white flowers soon to unfold.

The illusive #CrypticWoodWhite #butterfly on a #Vetch flower at #WWTCastleEspie.

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Yesterday was another rainbow day, and today it rained too.
Our ride was brisk, breezy, and beautiful!

#MontereyCounty #wildflowers #vetch #BloomScrolling #bloom #flowers

The lavender colored flowers of a vetch are in bloom against a wild embankment.

In case you didn't know, bird vetch is in the legume family. Here are some flowers together with their little seed pods
#vetch

A stem of bird vetch, Vicia cracca, with pretty purple flowers at the top that look like pea flowers, and little reddish brown seed pods at the bottom that look like snow peas.

Invasive, but beautiful: Crown vetch (Coronilla varia / Securigera varia) brings a touch of subtle colour to the shores of #LakeErie.
#BloomScrolling #Florespondence
#CrownVetch #vetch #wildflowers #weeds

Tangled mounds of pink and white flowers grow in whorled clusters atop delicate, fernlike foliage. Beyond, the grey, gently rippling waters of a lake meet the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Vivia cracca, or bird vetch, unfurling like a colorful fern frond.
#bloomscrolling #vetch

A stem of bird vetch, with the top like a backwards S. The little purple flowers, like pea flowers, are larger at the bottom of the stem and smaller at the tip. Behind this stem is another curling stem facing the opposite direction, aligned perfectly so its bright green curve highlights the inner curve of the vetch in the foreground.

The same flower seen from above. The S curve is like a spinal cord of someone bowed in prayer. It's more green at the top where the flowers are just coming in, and purple-blue at the bottom

A similar flower viewed from below. Its top is curving to the right. Its individual purple blue flowers are like fringe on a dancer's dress.

I have a new favorite word.

Vetch.

Apparently that's what this is in my apartment's front yard (according to iNaturalist).

I'm thrilled that so far my landlord has made no progress toward cleaning up the wildness of the yard -- so many volunteers, things growing willy-nilly, it's *wonderful*.

She apologized profusely when I moved in but I made it ultra-clear, no, I LOVE it this way. Wild is good, in my book.

#bloomscrolling #gardening #plants #vetch

Small stalks with dozens of tiny light purple flowers arranged on each, all around the stalk, about a dozen rows of flowers. At least I think each one is a flower? I'm not a botanist. There's about 8 of these stalks, all nestled in other luscious green leaves, some grass-stalk-like, some with multiple leaves spaced along them.

Bee on Vetch

I couldn’t believe it! I was photographing this #vetch and along came a #bee and photobombed the image. How lucky am I!

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A stack of green leaves comes from the right hand side of the photo. The stack ends in purple vetch flowers. There is an orange and black bee feeding from the flower.

I heard the peepers peeping. 🐸

I removed leaves from one area of seedlings, and some of them had already become a little rooted; so on the next patches, I left the ones below the seedlings' first leaves. None of them were on the ground when I put the seeds there, so....

I saw a couple lovely purple vetch flowers in my garden! and a young, handsome garlic. (sorry, no camera this evening)

I accidentally pulled up a strange seedling and put

#gardening #nature #mulch #vetch #spring #seedlings

This is Vetch - an introduced weed. Goes to prove weeds aren’t always ugly! it’s a problem in cereal crops, but not so much in wild woodlands, where I found this one. No idea how it got there - maybe a seed stuck to someone’s shoe, or a bird needing to go!
#Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers #Macro #FlowersOfMastodon #Vetch #ViciaSativa #Weed #Victoria #Australia

Vetch, weed, purple flowers, pea flowers, creeper, spreading weed, green leaves,

Bee on Vetch

I couldn’t believe it! I was photographing this #vetch and along came a #bee and photobombed the image. How lucky am I!

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Bee on Vetch

I couldn’t believe it! I was photographing this #vetch and along came a #bee and photobombed the image. How lucky am I!

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The real #Paleo diet: New #archaeological evidence changes what we thought about how ancient humans prepared food

by Ceren Kabukcu, The Conversation, November 26, 2022

"We found carbonised food fragments in Franchthi Cave (Aegean, Greece) dating to about 13,000-11,500 years ago. At Franchthi Cave we found one fragment from a finely-ground food which might be #bread, batter or a type of #porridge in addition to #pulse #seed-rich, coarse-ground foods.

"In Shanidar Cave (Zagros, Iraqi Kurdistan), associated with early modern humans around 40,000 years ago and Neanderthals around 70,000 years ago, we also found ancient food fragments. This included wild #mustard and terebinth (wild #pistachio) mixed into foods. We discovered wild #grass seeds mixed with pulses in the charred remains from the Neanderthal layers. Previous studies at Shanidar found traces of grass seeds in the tartar on Neanderthal teeth.

"At both sites, we often found ground or pounded pulse seeds such as bitter #vetch (Vicia ervilia), grass #pea (Lathyrus spp) and wild pea (Pisum spp). The people who lived in these caves added the seeds to a mixture that was heated up with water during grinding, pounding or mashing of soaked seeds.

"The majority of wild pulse mixes were characterised by bitter tasting mixtures. In modern cooking, these pulses are often soaked, heated and de-hulled (removal of the seed coat) to reduce their bitterness and toxins. The ancient remains we found suggest humans have been doing this for tens of thousands of years. But the fact seed coats weren't completely removed hints that these people wanted to retain a little of the bitter flavour.

"The presence of wild mustard, with its distinctive sharp taste, is a seasoning well documented in the Aceramic period (the beginning of village life in the south-west Asia, 8500BC) and later Neolithic sites in the region. Plants such as wild almonds (bitter), terebinth (tannin-rich and oily) and wild #fruits (sharp, sometimes sour, sometimes tannin-rich) are pervasive in plant remains from south-west Asia and Europe during the later Paleolithic period (40,000-10,000 years ago). Their inclusion in dishes based on grasses, #tubers, meat, fish, would have lent a special flavour to the finished meal. So these plants were eaten for tens of thousands of years across areas thousands of miles apart. These dishes may be the origins of human culinary practices.

"Based on the evidence from plants found during this time span, there is no doubt both #Neanderthals and early modern humans diets included a variety of plants. Previous studies found food residues trapped in tartar on the teeth of Neanderthals from Europe and south-west Asia which show they cooked and ate grasses and tubers such as wild #barley, and medicinal plants. The remains of carbonised plants remains show they gathered pulses and pine nuts."

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-real-paleo-diet-archaeological-evidence.html

#Paleolithic #Archaeobotany #FoodArchaeology #FoodHistory #History #Histodon #CulinaryArchaeology

The humidity is high and the pasture smells like heaven!

#Naturephotography #NewEngland #Milkweed #Vetch

I couldn’t believe it! I was photographing this #vetch and along came a #bee and photobombed the image. How lucky am I!

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I've been really trying to get the main types of the pink/purple Vetch in my head this summer. I'm rubbish at remembering the differences. I've seen 3 kinds over the last few weeks. Evening walk today we came across a 4th. Proper happy. Bet I'll forget it all again by next year!

Common Vetch, Bitter Vetch, Bush Vetch and last but not least Tufted Vetch.

#WildFlowers #Vetch

Photo of the pink flowers of the Common vetch.

Photo of the pink flowers of the Bitter vetch. Not as strong a pink as the common and less flowers than the tufted

Photo of the pink flowers of the Bush vetch.

Photo of the the many pink/blue flowers of the Tufted vetch.

@irolita with a yard that big you could fence into quarters. Grow #green #manure #covercrops like #vetch #clover #peas and mix with other quick growing plants such as #radishes #kale #mustard. If you planted three sections at the same time and selected the right mix for growth, you could rotate most of the way through summer. The forth and first section would be planted after the first was eaten up.

Sleeping black-tailed deer fawn, amidst vetch... painted on an oyster shell.

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#art #pnw #deer #fawn #vetch #painting #wildlife #Animal #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #PNW #illustration #SeattleArtist #WashingtonState #ActuallyAutistic #PugetSound #shell #BabyAnimals #oyster #oysters #artist #Seattle

A red-brown deer fawn sleeping curled up amidst green and purple vetch, painted inside an oyster shell with gold trim.

A Nevada Bumble Bee (Bombus nevadensis) on American vetch (Vicia americana) along the Meewasin, Saskatoon. This was an exciting find as we are at the very limits of this bumble bees distribution here.

#bumblebees #pollinators #vetch #entomology #meewasin #prairieinsects #insects #insectphotograpy #wildflowers #flowerphotography

A large bumblebee is hanging nearly upside-down on a purple vetch flower, its proboscis extended deep into a bud. It has a mustard yellow thorax, with a round black spot in the middle, with the yellow extending halfway over the top of its abdomen, the rest of the abdomen being black .

Narrow-leaved milk vetch (Austragalus pectinatus) along the Meewasin. A popular food source for a range of bumblebees.

#nativeplants #wildflowers #flowers #vetch #meewasin #saskatoon #flowerphotography #naturephotography #pollinators #bumblebees

#Vetch

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