Taxon: Vicia cracca L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AK°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Vicia cracca subsp. cracca (1 accessions)
• Vicia cracca subsp. incana (no accessions)
• Vicia cracca subsp. japonica (no accessions)

Common names:

• bird vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• boreal vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• cow vetch   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• tufted vetch   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• tufted vetch   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• vesque craque   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• Vogelwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• ervilhaca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• cisirão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• ervilhaca-dos-passarinhos   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• gorošek myšinyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• arveja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• veza de pájaro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• veza francesa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• kråkvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Leg China)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Leg China)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Aga Buryat, Altay, Buryatia, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Evenk, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Khanty-Mansi, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Taymyr, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Ust Orda Buryat, Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China [n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan [natzd.?]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Vietnam [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kalmykia, Kaluga, Karelia, Kirov, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, Nenets, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Perm, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

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).
• Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project 7:51.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:69.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Ohashi, H. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Japan, Taiwan data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Tai Hyun Chung. 1965. Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea, vol. 5, Tracheophyta.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• 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.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vicia cracca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vicia cracca.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vicia cracca.

Synonyms:

• Vicia cracca subsp. gerardi Bonnier & Layens [= Vicia cracca subsp. incana]
  
• "Vicia cracca subsp. grossheimii (Ekutim.) Hashimov, nom. inval." [= Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• "Vicia cracca [unranked] gerardi Gaudin, nom. inval." [= Vicia cracca subsp. incana]
  
• Vicia grossheimii Ekutim. [= Vicia cracca subsp. cracca]
  
• Vicia incana Gouan [≡ Vicia cracca subsp. incana]
  

Check other web resources for Vicia cracca L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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