Vicia nigricans |
Vicia floridana |
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black vetch, giant vetch, spring vetch, tiny vetch |
Florida vetch |
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Habit | Herbs perennial. | |
Stems | sprawling or climbing, filiform, 3–8 dm. |
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Leaves | 3–5 cm; tendrils simple; stipules much smaller than leaflets, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch; leaflets 2–6, blades usually broadly elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, sometimes linear, 7–18 × 2–8 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous. |
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Inflorescences | 2–8-flowered, 2–5 cm, shorter to longer than subtending leaf rachis. |
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Flowers | 5–6 mm; calyx base symmetric, lobes equal, much shorter than tube; corolla white to bluish, banner pandurate, blade equal to claw, glabrous; style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically. |
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Legumes | brown to black, broadly oblong, 8–15 × 3–5 mm, oblique-tipped, glabrous; stipe to 1–2 mm. |
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Seeds | 1 or 2, purplish black, compressed-globose, 3 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/2–3/4 circumference of seed. |
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Vicia nigricans |
Vicia floridana |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–May. | |
Habitat | Moist soils, ditches, roadsides. | |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | |
Distribution |
w North America; s South America (Argentina, Chile)
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FL; GA |
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.) |
Vicia floridana is distinguished from V. acutifolia by the broader leaflets (elliptic to lanceolate versus linear) and shorter (8–15 mm versus 20–25 mm) fruits. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 292. (1879) |
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