Tag: Bird Vetch (Vicia cracca)

Bird Vetch (or Cow Vetch) is a lovely, delicate flower with a fascinating history. Brought to North America from Europe and Asia for livestock fodder, it has become a prolific — now deemed invasive — scrambler along sunny roadsides, fields, and wetlands, like the beautiful Caldwell First Nation Conservation Boardwalk in Leamington. Climbing Sprite Upon…