Taxon: Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.

• a nom. nov. for Hedysarum onobrychis L.
• spelling corrected in accordance with Vienna ICBN Art. 60.8 and ICBN Rec. 60G

Common names:

• esparcet   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• holy-clover   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• sainfoin   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• lü shi cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• esparcette   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• sainfoin cultivé   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Esparcette   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Futter-Esparcette   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• crocetta   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• fieno-santo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• lupinella   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• sanfeno   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• esparcet posevnoj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• arveja de asno   (Source: F Iberica ) – Spanish
  
• esparceta   (Source: F Int Apico ) – Spanish
  
• esparcetilla   (Source: F Iberica ) – Spanish
  
• pipirigallo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• esparsett   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F Int Apico)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Tasmania
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Khabarovsk, Primorye
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Belgorod, Kaluga, Komi, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Orel, Pskov, Rostov, Tambov, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Voronezh; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada [w.]
  United States [n.w.]

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Curtis, W. M. & D. I. Morris. 1956–. The student's flora of Tasmania.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 2002. Flora of New South Wales, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Jordanov, D. et al., eds. 1963–1982. Flora na narodna republika Balgarija.
• Jovanovic, S. 1970–1977. Flora SR Srbije.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Ortega-Sada, J. L. 1987. Flora de interes apicola y polinizacion de cultivos.
• Plitmann, U. 1966. Studies in the taxonomy of the Leguminosae of Israel. Israel J. Bot. 15:30.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• 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.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Onobrychis viciifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Onobrychis viciifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Onobrychis viciifolia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hedysarum onobrychis L.
  
• (≡) Onobrychis sativa Lam.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (≡) Onobrychis vulgaris Gaudin
  (previously associated with 42 accessions)

Check other web resources for Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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