NOUN
- perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders
How To Use kidney vetch In A Sentence
- Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
- They were restricted to open areas of bare sand with a little marram grass and scattered clumps of the caterpillars 'only known food plant, the yellowy reddish-blossomed kidney vetch. Country diary: Nairn Dunes
- In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift.
- I had a wonderful time, saw, pyramid orchids, spotted orchid, St. John's wort, kidney vetch, tufted vetch (I think), bladder campions (hadn't seen any for a long time) meadowsweet, bird's foot trefoil, hare's tail clover, silverweed and tormentils, sea bindweed, field poppies, greater knapweed, centaury, and what I think may be a kind of mullein.
