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Vicia tetrasperma
Vicia tetrasperma
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Schreber
Common Names
- Smooth Tare
- Si zi ye wan dou (Pinyin)
- Lentil Vetch (USA)
- Sparrow Vetch
- Gorošek Chetyrekhsemyannyi (Russian)
- Viersamige Wicke (German)
- Kasumagusa (Japan)
- Slender Vetch
- Chechevichka Chetyrekhsemyanna
- Vesce A Quatre Graines
Geographical Habitats
- Afghanistan
- N. Africa
- N. Atlantic Islands
- Bhutan
- Anhui
- Fujian
- Shaanxi
- Gansu
- Guizhou
- Hebei
- Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jiangsu
- Jiangxi
- Sichuan
- Taiwan
- Xinjiang
- Yunnan
- Zhejiang - China
- France
- Great Britain
- India
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Ryukyu Is.
- Shikoku - Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Korea
- Kyrgyzstan
- N. Pakistan
- Portugal
- Russia
- Spain
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
Natural Habitats
- Grassland
- pasture
- cultivated areas
- wasteland
- disturbed areas
- coastal
Flowering Times
- Feb-Aug (China)
- May-Aug (Great Britain)
- Apr-May (Japan)
Fruiting Times
Annual, perennial or biennial scrambling or twining hairy or glabrous herb & tendril vine with pinnate leaves, 8-12 mucronate leaflets to 17mm x 4mm, simple tendrils. 30mm 1-4 flowered axillary racemes with minute bracts, white tinged pale blue, pale pink, white to pale purple 8mm long flowers, fruit a glabrous torulose brown pod to 15mm long x 4mm
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Mobot
- FONZ
- FOC
- FOBI
- JDH
- APDC
- Mansfeld
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- FOJ
- ILDIS