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13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Not easy to see amidst its rough grassland habitat, but the whitish bits are the flowers together with the darker green leaves. |
27th July 2007, Crosby, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Un-like Smooth Tareand Slender Tare, the leaves are not always in pairs, only some are. Leaflets narrow, coming from square stems. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
It impossible to see what is going on in-situ, but held aloft the reason for its quantum entanglement is seen to be due to the numerous tendrils it ensnares other plants with to enable it to better clamber over them. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
All stems square and slightly hairy un-like the other Tares. Flowers mainly white with bluish-lilac tinges. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers a small 3 to 5mm but typically of the pea type. Each leaf has a small point at the tip. |
22nd May 2015, Alt Rifle Range, Hightown, Sefton Coast. | Photo: © RWD |
Before the flowers have opened. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Sepal teeth roughly equal in length un-like Smooth Tarewhere the upper two are shorter than the rest. Sepal teeth roughly similar length. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Between 2 to 7 flowers in a spike-like head unlike Smooth Tarewhich has only 1-2, or Slender Tares 1-4. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers mainly white with bluish tinges un-like Slender Tarewhich is bluer or Smooth Tarewhich is more lilac-blue. |
11th Aug 2018, Maghull, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaflets here look to be in pairs, but they aren't really. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Stems decidedly all square (not mentioned in some books). Note leaflets top right which alternate and not in pairs. |
13th July 2011, Blackleach Country Park, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
It entwines its tendrils around other plants in order to clamber amidst and over them. The tendrils are branched, un-like those of Smooth Tareor Slender Tarewhich are un-branched. |
11th Aug 2018, Maghull, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
The square and ribbed leaf stalk with leaves at the end, plus a much shorter bract (left) and the grooved flower stalk (right). |
11th Aug 2018, Maghull, Merseyside. | Photo: © RWD |
The acuminate tips at the end of the suddenly truncated and minutely-puckered upper-surface of the leaves and the less-puckered under-surface. There are some tiny appressed hairs mainly along the fold on the back of the leaves too. |
Easily mistaken for : other
Tares are grown as crops in fields for use either as a green manure and in conservation seed mixes. The seeds are also used for fishing bait or for bird-food.
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