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Vicia caroliniana

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Walter

Common Names

• Carolina Wood Vetch
• Pale Vetch
• Wood Vetch

Geographical Habitats

• Ontario - Canada
• Indiana
• Michigan
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• W. Virginia
• Illinois
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Wisconsin
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• District of Colombia
• Georgia
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Lousiana
• Maryland
• Mississippi
• N. Carolina
• S. Carolina
• New Jersey
• New York
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Virginia
• W. Virginia - USA

Natural Habitats

• Woodland

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (USA)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous or strigillose herbaceous tendril climber with stems to 1.2m. Pinnate leaves with 8-16 mucronate leaflets, Axillary multi-flowered 80mm long racemes of 8mm long pale pink or white tipped black flowers, glabrous calyx, white or bluish corolla with keel petals to 10mm long. Glabrous legume to 30mm long.

Further References

• Mobot
• FOA
• USDA
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOSEUS