Plant Description:

• Climbing plant with strongly veined leaves, growing up to 80 cm long
• Long, loose, bluish-purple flower clusters
• Prairie legume found around bluffs and in the shade
• This vetch is not poisonous, but use caution as many vetches produce hydrocyanic acid and can cause cyanide poisoning
• Found at Stops 1 and 2

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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