Meadow Vetchling (Lathyrus pratensis)
- This grows in the grassland on Cowbar and along the new bund.
- It is a member of the pea and clover family and its flowers are easy to mistake for birdsfoot trefoil but its leaves look like those of other vetches and it is a scrambling plant with tendrils while birdsfoot trefoil has closer clusters of flowers and is lower to the ground, with broader, more clover-like leaves.
- Its flowers appear between May and August and attract bees and wasps.
- Besides producing black, shiny seed pods, it also spreads by underground stems called rhizomes.
- It is also called yellow pea, meadow pea, fingers-and-thumbs and meadow pea-vine.
- The plant is said to repel mice.
