Vicia hirsuta (hairy tare, "Suzumenoendo")

Japanese name: スズメノエンドウ （雀豌豆）
Scientific name: Vicia hirsuta

[Overview]
An annual or winter annual found along roadsides and in vacant lots.
The stem is vine-like and grows to 30–60 cm long.
Leaves are even-pinnately compound with 12–14 leaflets, and the tip becomes a tendril.
The leaflets are narrowly ovate, 1–1.7 cm long and 0.2–0.3 cm wide.
There are narrowly ovate stipules.
Racemes 2–5 cm long bear 3–7 whitish purple pea-like flowers.
The calyx lobes are longer than the calyx tube.
The fruit is a legume, oblong, 0.6–1 cm long and 0.3–0.4 cm wide, with short hairs on the surface.
Each legume contains 1–2 flattened spherical seeds.

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