Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with Red ant (Myrmica rubra) on bud. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Colin Varndell / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) in flower. Dorset, UK, May.

Alan Williams / Five-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena trifolii) on Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) flower, Cheshire, UK, July.

Rod Williams / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London. May.

David Kjaer / Common vetch (Vicia sativa), Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with magenta flowers flowering in rough grassland, Berkshire, May

Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with magenta flowers flowering in rough grassland, Berkshire, England, UK. May

Paul Harcourt Davies / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) in flower, Gargano, Puglia, Italy. April.

Nick Upton / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) flowering in coastal sand dunes, Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, May.

Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) flowering nitrogen fixing leguminous plant grown for fodder, Champagne, France

Ernie Janes / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) Norfolk, England, UK, May.