Common Vetch
Vicia sativa
Summary 7
Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae. Although considered a weed when found growing in a cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant is often grown as green manure or livestock fodder.
Description 8
Climbing or sprawling annual herb to 80 cm. Leaves paripinnate with 3-8 pairs of leaflets, the rhachis usually terminating in a branched tendril; leaflets linear to oblong or obcordate, mucronate. Inflorescence subsessile with 1-2(-4) flowers per inflorescence. Corolla 10-30 mm, light reddish-purple, bluish or mauve. Pod 25-50 mm, brownish-black.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Jörg Hempel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicia_sativa_LC0223.jpg
- (c) Biopix, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/PhotosMedium/JCS%20Vicia%20sativa%20ssp%20segetalis%2048352.JPG
- (c) Biopix, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/photos/JCS-Vicia-sativa-ssp-nigra-62984.JPG
- (c) Valter Jacinto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8406/8651932440_2aca8d6c66_o.jpg
- (c) Valter Jacinto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8525/8634585470_1b030d984b_o.jpg
- (c) Valter Jacinto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8529/8634627924_79cf26023c_o.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_sativa
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30281422
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