Taxon: Vicia villosa Roth subsp. varia (Host) Corb.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Vicia villosa (121 accessions)
• Vicia villosa var. gore (no accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. eriocarpa (1 accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. pseudocracca (no accessions)
• Vicia villosa subsp. villosa (2 accessions)

Common names:

• winter vetch   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• woolly-pod vetch   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ou zhou tiao zi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• gorošek šerstistoplodnyj   (Source: F Armenia ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• kvarnvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Enneking 1995; W. L. Graves, pers. comm.)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Enneking 1995; W. L. Graves, pers. comm.)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.; Enneking 29. 1995, as V. villosa subsp. dasycarpa)
  

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View toxicology references for Vicia villosa subsp. varia from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Switzerland
  East Europe: Lithuania; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project 7:73.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Enneking, D. 1995. The toxicity of Vicia species and their utilization as grain legumes. 4.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:162.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. [= Vicia varia Host].

Synonyms:

• (=) Vicia dasycarpa Ten.
  (previously associated with 24 accessions)
• (≡) Vicia varia Host (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Vicia villosa subsp. dasycarpa (Ten.) Cavill.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Vicia villosa Roth subsp. varia (Host) Corb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images or nodulation data:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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