Taxon: Securigera varia (L.) Lassen

Common names:

• axseed   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• crown-vetch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• trailing crown-vetch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• coronille bigarrée   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• coronille variée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• bunte Kronwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• arvejilla morada   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• coronilla morada   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ruda inglesa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; ornamental   (fide Crops US, as Coronilla varia; Spring Hill Nurs. Cat., 1995, as Coronilla varia; Food Feed Crops US; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Leg WorldEc, as Coronilla varia; Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2, as Coronilla varia)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Securigera varia from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Canada
  United States

• also cultivated

References:

• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat) [= Coronilla varia L.].
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Securigera varia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Securigera varia. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Coronilla varia L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 112 accessions)

Check other databases for Securigera varia (L.) Lassen:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• 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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