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Old 30-04-2010, 11:31 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Plant who's seed looks like a sweetpea's one.

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On 29/04/2010 15:58, Dave Hill wrote:

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Same family, could be a species or vetch



The leaves are much narrower than a picture I found on the 'Net of a
common Vetch.

Seedlings don't always look like mature plants, which is why I wouldn't
attempt an identification to species, and in this case the number of
leaflets is lower than one expects in a major plant, but the tares (3
species, but hairy tare, Vicia hirsuta, is much the commonest) have
narrower leaflets than common vetch. (I can recognise 5 species of vetch
in flower and fruit, but not from the foliage.)

I seem to recall Lathyrus heterophylus (spell?) looks similar at seedling
stage
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