vetch
Twining legume plant
Vetch is a climbing plant of the pea family, grown as fodder for livestock or as a cover crop to enrich soil with nitrogen.
The plants have feathery leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
Wild vetches grow commonly along roadsides and in meadows: The field was thick with vetch and clover.
Edible pod seed
- lentilEdible disc-shaped legume
- cloverThree-leafed legume plant
- alfalfaForage crop legume
- lupinLeguminous flowering plant
bean · pulse · chickpea · cowpea · fava · tendril · pod · seed
Coarse livestock nourishment
- forageSeek food actively
- hayDried feed crop
- silageFermented crop fodder
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
sowing · harvesting · intercropping · overseeding · grazing · plowing · tillage · farmland
Small rounded protuberances
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- biofertilizerMicrobe-containing growth promoter
- nitrateNO₃ compound
ammonia · bacteria · leguminous · humus · microorganisms · inoculation
pea
Edible pod seed
lupin · bean · pulse · chickpea · cowpea · fava · tendril · pod · seed · vine
fodder
Coarse livestock nourishment
pasture · sowing · harvesting · intercropping · overseeding · grazing · plowing · tillage · farmland · acreage
nodules
Small rounded protuberances
- symbiosisInterspecies biological interdependence
- fixationPersistent mental attachment
- biofertilizerMicrobe-containing growth promoter
nitrate · ammonia · bacteria · leguminous · humus · microorganisms · inoculation
wildflower
Uncultivated flowering plant
- hedgerowLinear shrub boundary
- cropsmaize, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes
- foragefodder, hay, silage, pasture grass, browse
- wildflowersblack-eyed Susan, black-eyed Susans, daisy, buttercup, bluebonnets
- bee plantsclover, white clover, red clover, wildflower, lavender
- host plantsmilkweed, nettle, nettles, passionflower, pipevine
- fallow farmingcover crops, stubble, crop rotation, bare soil, clover