Lucas Land
Wood or Carolina
Vetch
Vicia caroliniana
My first mistake was to think that this was a vetch that had strayed from a roadside planting. Typical of the vetches, the white flowers are carried in a raceme that emerges from the leaf axil. Occasionally these small one-half inch flowers will be blue tipped. The leaflets are oval. This is a woodland plant first noticed on the slopes of Bullpasture Mt. and later throughout the area. Another springtime plant.