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Vicia sepium

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Bush Vetch
• Ye wan dou (China)
• Hedge Vetch
• Vesce des Haies (French)
• Zaunwicke (German)
• Karasu-no-endō (Japan)
• Aed-Hiirehernes
• Cheper Lerke
• Garoshak Plotavy
• Goroshek Zabornyi
• Goroshok Plotovoi
• Gyulul
• Khermiin Gish
• Lyada
• Mazerike Shoarechului
• Myshak
• Patvorinis Vikis
• Saiyr Zhonshka
• Shyrankytsh
• Shyrgyorysh
• Vik Tzankapati
• Zogu Ku

Geographical Habitats

• Gansu
• Guizhou
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Xinjiang
• Yunnan - China
• Germany
• Jammu & Kashmir - India
• Kazakhstan
• Korea
• Kyrgyzstan
• Mongolia
• Morocco
• Russia
• Switzerland
• Tajikistan

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• hedgerows
• grassland
• thickets
• pastures
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• May-Aug (Great Britain)
• Mar-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Mar-Aug (China)

Climbing, erect or trailing glabrous or downy perennial tendril herb with axillary fascicles or 3-4 flowered racemes of 15mm dull blue, indigo or violet to red flowers, hairy calyx, glabrous pod to 40mm long x 7mm, black when ripe, branched tendrils, 20 mm racemes of up to 6 flowers, pinnate leaves, mucronu;late hairy leaflets

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• JDH
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOJ
• ILDIS