Taxon: Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray

Common names:

• hairy tare   (Source: Enneking 1995) – English
  
• hairy vetch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tare vetch   (Source: Leg ErWild ) – English
  
• tiny vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ers lentille   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• ers velu   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• vesce hérissée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• vesceron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Rauhhaarwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Zitterwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cigerão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• ervilhaca-pilosa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• vika volosistaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• alverjón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• duvvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Enneking 1995)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Vicia hirsuta from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda; Zaire [e.]
  South Tropical Africa: Angola [s.w.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq [n. (rare)]; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.w.]; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• 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, Astrakhan, Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Murmansk, 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:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (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 7:56.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937–. Conspectus florae angolensis.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• 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.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:37.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• 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.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• 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).
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:169.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Troupin, G. 1978–. Flore du Rwanda.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vicia hirsuta.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vicia hirsuta.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Ervum hirsutum L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ervum terronii Ten.
  
• (=) Vicia hirsuta var. terronii (Ten.) Burnat
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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