Vicia sativa |
Vicia pulchella |
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common vetch, garden vetch, spring vetch, tare |
beautiful vetch, showy vetch, sweetclover vetch |
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Habit | Herbs annual. | Herbs perennial. | ||||
Stems | erect-ascending or climbing, slender to robust, 3–10 dm. |
sprawling or climbing, slender, 2–15 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. |
4–11 cm; tendrils branched; stipules much smaller than leaflets, ligulate, without nectariferous patch; leaflets 10–16, blades elliptic-oblong to linear, 7–30 × 1–11 mm, apex obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial often sparsely long-pubescent. |
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Inflorescences | usually (1 or)2(–4)-flowered, 0–1 cm. |
8–25-flowered, 2–15 cm, shorter to longer than subtending leaf rachis. |
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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. |
4–7 mm; calyx base symmetric, lobes equal, usually shorter than tube; corolla cream-white with purple-tipped keel, banner pandurate, blade equal to claw, glabrous; style compressed adaxially, pubescent evenly for some length along style. |
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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. |
reddish brown, oblong, 20–35 × 5–8 mm, acute-tipped, glabrous; stipe 1–2 mm. |
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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. |
5–9, purplish black, compressed-subglobose, 2–3 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/4 circumference of seed. |
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Vicia sativa |
Vicia pulchella |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |||||
Habitat | Pine woods, juniper grasslands, moist meadows, open stony hillsides. | |||||
Elevation | 1500–3000 m. (4900–9800 ft.) | |||||
Distribution |
Europe; w Asia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, South America, elsewhere in Asia, Africa, Australia]
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AZ; NM; Mexico
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Discussion | 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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Key |
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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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Synonyms | V. melilotoides | |||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 736. (1753) | Kunth in A. von Humboldt et al.: Nov. Gen. Sp. 6(fol.): 390; 6(qto.): 499; plate 583. (1824) | ||||
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