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Vicia lutea

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Yellow Vetch
• Goroshek Zheltyi

Geographical Habitats

• France
• Iran
• Italy
• Morocco
• Turkey

Natural Habitats

• Cliffs
• shingle
• coastal
• grassland

Flowering Times

• Jun-Sep

Fruiting Times

Annual glabrous or pilose scrambling tendril vine, sometimes climbing, prostrate with cream or yellowish to white flowers sometimes tinged purple to 30mm long, brown to black hairy or glabrous pods to 40mm long, solitary flowers pale yellow, quadrangular stems, mucronulate leaflets hairy beneath

Further References

• E & M 1970
• FONZ
• FOBI
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• ILDIS