Wooly Vetch
This is an introduced species - it has been used as a cover crop on farms, which may be how it came to be in this place, which before it's restoration as an estuary was diked and converted to a dairy farm (and part of it is still diked and harvested for hay).
"Vicia villosa", known as the hairy vetch, fodder vetch or winter vetch, is a plant native to Europe and western Asia. It is a legume, grown as a forage crop. Hairy vetch is very similar to tufted vetch, the most noticeable difference being that tufted vetch has a smooth stem.
Similar species: Fabales
By morpheme
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Uploaded May 30, 2015. Captured May 28, 2015 14:19 in Nisqually Estuary Taril, DuPont, WA 98327, USA.
