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Taxon: Vicia sativa L.

Genus: Vicia subgenus: Vicia section: Vicia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Fabeae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 300667
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:736. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 26-Aug-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Aug-2004
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 521 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • black-pod vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. angustifolia]) – English   [Vicia sativa subsp. nigra]
  • common vetch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • narrow-leaf vetch   (Source: Leg Tex ) – English   [Vicia sativa subsp. nigra]
  • subterranean vetch   (Source: Enneking 1995) – English   [Vicia sativa subsp. amphicarpa]
  • tare   (Source: Pl Book ) – English   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • vesce commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • vesce fourragère   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • Ackerwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • Saatwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • schmalblüttrige Wicke   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. angustifolia]) – German   [Vicia sativa subsp. nigra]
  • o-yahazu-endo   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • zadowikken   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  • ervilhaça-comum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • alverja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • arveja   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
  • averijilla   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. angustifolia]) – Spanish   [Vicia sativa subsp. nigra]
  • veza común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vicia sativa subsp. sativa]
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Economic importance:

  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen [n.]
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Western Siberia [s.]
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    China: China
    Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Karelia, Kirov, Komi, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Orel, 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 [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Malta; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  • widely naturalized

      Cultivated:
  • widely cultivated

References:

  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project (Vicieae DP) 7:67.
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
  • Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:23.
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. (Leg Taiwan)
  • Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis. (F CAsia)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. (Leg Indochina)
  • Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones. (F Tunis)
  • Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:153.
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India. (Leg India)
  • Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
  • Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. (SF Egypt)
  • Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. (Leg Ethiop)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Troupin, G. 1978–. Flore du Rwanda. (F Rwanda)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Wouw, M. van de et al. 2001. Molecular taxonomy of Vicia ser. Vicia based on amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Pl. Syst. Evol. 229:91–105.
  • Wouw, M. van de et al. 2003. A multivariate and cladistic study of Vicia L. ser. Vicia (Fabaceae) based on analysis of morphological characters. Pl. Syst. Evol. 237:19–39.
  • Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Vicia sativa L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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