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Can anyone help me put names to these wild vetches please

Tom, Dick and Harry...
OK I'll get my coat!!   ;D

OK how about

bush vetch
dyer's greenweed
tufted vetch

I think you're right.

or maybe even purple and yellow toadflax?

yes I agree....tufted vetch defo!...for the purple one at least

I think the 2nd one is Yellow Melilot.

i always called the first one wild sweetpea?

I also think the second picture is yellow melilot - where this grow near wild lucerne(alfalfa), the two cross pollinate with attractive results

Thanks for your replies, I hadn't heard of yellow melilot but having looked it up it could be the one. Good to find out the names of the vetches too.

And yes Dave, get your coat  ;)

Bush vetch (Vicia sepium)

Either tall melilot (Meliotus altissimus) or ribbed melilot (Melilotus officinalis), need a closer pic of the flower or preferably seed pods to distinguish between them

Tufted vetch (Vicia cracca)