Vicia nigricans |
Vicia disperma |
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black vetch, giant vetch, spring vetch, tiny vetch |
European vetch, two-seed vetch |
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Habit | Herbs annual. | |
Stems | sprawling, 2–6 dm. |
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Leaves | 3–6 cm; tendrils usually branched; stipules much smaller than leaflets, semisagittate; leaflets 12–20, blades narrowly elliptic to linear, 7–12 × 1–5 mm, apex blunt to acute and mucronulate, surfaces glabrous or puberulent. |
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Inflorescences | 2–5-flowered, 2–5 cm, somewhat shorter than subtending leaf rachis. |
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Flowers | 4–5 mm; calyx base symmetric, lobes unequal, lateral lobes equal to tube; corolla blue, banner pandurate, blade 2 times length of claw, glabrous; style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically. |
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Legumes | tawny, oblong-subrhomboidal, 12–16 × 5–7 mm, glabrous; short-stipitate. |
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Seeds | 2, purplish black, compressed-globose, 4–5 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/6 circumference of seed. |
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Vicia nigricans |
Vicia disperma |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | |
Habitat | Disturbed areas. | |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | |
Distribution |
w North America; s South America (Argentina, Chile)
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CA; Europe [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). Variety nigricans is known from Pacific coastal areas of southern South America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Vicia | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Vicia |
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Name authority | Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy., 20. (1830) | de Candolle: Cat. Hort. Monsp., 154. (1813) |
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