Meadow vetchling
Yellow-flowered scrambling legume of damp meadows and verges; mainly bumblebee-pollinated, giving honey bees limited summer nectar.
- Nectar
- Medium
- Pollen
- Low
- Flowering
- JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
- Height
- 0.3-1.2 m
- Life cycle
- Perennial
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Meadow vetchling is a perennial legume that climbs over other plants with its tendrils in damp meadows, woodland clearings, at the foot of hedges and along roadsides. Its bright yellow flowers open in short racemes. Because the flower is heavy and closed, its main visitors are bumblebees; honey bees take nectar mostly from open flowers and through holes bitten by bumblebees, and show little interest in the pollen.
Flowering
It flowers from June to August; in unmown meadows flowering lasts a long time.
Honey and pollen
It has no honey of its own; it is a minor component of meadow and highland honeys.
Note for the beekeeper
It is no reason to migrate on its own, but as part of meadow plant diversity it makes a small, steady contribution all summer. Because it fixes nitrogen in the soil, it also supports the growth of other honey plants in the meadow.