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Vicia sativa ssp. nigra

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Ehrhart

Common Names

• Zhai ye ye wan dou (Pinyin)
• Narrowleaf Vetch
• Blackpod Vetch
• Schmalblättige Wicke (German)
• Common Vetch
• Cultivated Vetch
• Yahazu-endō (Japan)
• Lentille Sauvage
• Garoshak Vuzkalisty
• Goroshek Opushennyi
• Goroshek Sorno-Polevoi
• Goroshek Sornyi
• Goroshek Uzkolistnyi
• Nariin Nabchit Gish
• Narrow-leaved Vetch
• Schmalblattrige Wicke
• Uzunyarpag Lerke
• Vetch
• Vik Nekhtere

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• France
• Great Britain
• Japan
• Kenya

Natural Habitats

• Grassland
• riversides
• pasture
• wasteland
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Mar-Jul (China)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Sep (China)

Hirsute slightly tendriled annual vine with pinnate leaves, mucronulate pilose leaflets, 12-14 leaflets linear rather than oblong to 30mm x 6mm. Solitary purple or crimson flowers to 18mm long, white at keel & edge of wings, calyx to 12mm long with teeth half as long as tube. Brown-black horizontal pubescent flat legume 55mm x 6mm,

Further References

• FOC
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOJ
• ILDIS