Vicia nigricans |
Vicia sativa |
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black vetch, giant vetch, spring vetch, tiny vetch |
common vetch, garden vetch, spring vetch, tare |
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Habit | Herbs annual. | |||||
Stems | erect-ascending or climbing, slender to robust, 3–10 dm. |
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Leaves | 3–8 cm; tendrils simple or branched; stipules foliose, approaching leaflets in size, semisagittate, with nectariferous patch abaxially; leaflets 8–14, blades ovate-oblong, narrowly elliptic, or linear [obovate], 15–30 × 5–15 mm, apex obtuse to truncate-emarginate, distinctly apiculate, surfaces hirsute. |
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Inflorescences | usually (1 or)2(–4)-flowered, 0–1 cm. |
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Flowers | 10–30 mm; calyx base symmetric, lobes subequal, ± equal to tube; corolla violet-purple, lavender, or whitish, banner stenonychioid, blade shorter than or equal to claw, glabrous; style compressed abaxially, pubescent apically, tufted abaxially. |
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Legumes | yellow to brown, or reddish brown to black, linear, 25–60 × 3–11 mm, oblique-tipped, glabrous or pubescent; stipe absent. |
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Seeds | 4–12, usually greenish gray to maroon or black, rarely yellowish white, globose or ± compressed, 3–5 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/6–1/5 circumference of seed. |
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Vicia nigricans |
Vicia sativa |
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Distribution |
w North America; s South America (Argentina, Chile)
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Europe; w Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, South America, elsewhere in Asia, Africa, Australia]
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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.) |
Varieties 7 (2 in the flora). D. Zohary and U. Plitmann (1979) provided a detailed description of the morphological and genetic variation found within the Vicia sativa complex. Of the seven infraspecific taxa they described, two (vars. angustifolia and sativa) are cultivated as forage crops and widely introduced in the flora area. Variety angustifolia is an aggressive colonizer of cultivated and disturbed habitats. (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) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 736. (1753) | ||||
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