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Vicia sativa (narrowleaf vetch; garden vetch; sweetpea (garden vetch); Tare; Lentille Sauvage; vetch; Pois France; Arveja; Spring Vetch; Common Vetch)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae. Although considered a weed when found growing in a cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant is often grown as green manure or livestock fodder. There are at least four subspecies generally accepted:
View Wikipedia Record: Vicia sativa

Infraspecies

Vicia sativa amphicarpa (subterranean vetch)
Vicia sativa bobartii
Vicia sativa cordata
Vicia sativa devia
Vicia sativa incisa
Vicia sativa macrocarpa
Vicia sativa nigra (Common Vetch) (Attributes)
Vicia sativa sativa (Spring Vetch) (Attributes)
Vicia sativa var. angustifolia
Vicia sativa var. bobartii
Vicia sativa var. sativa

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Early Spring
Dispersal Mode [4]  Zoochory, Autochory, Endozoochory
Drought Tolerance [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  None
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  80 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Spring
Growth Form [1]  Single Stem
Growth Period [1]  Spring
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Hazards [2]  There is some evidence that the seed may be toxic but this has only been shown under laboratory conditions, there are no recorded cases of poisoning by this plant in Britain;
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera, Bats
Propagation [1]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [1]  Rapid
Root Depth [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Seeds Per [1]  39600 / lb (87303 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Climbing
Structure [2]  Vine
Usage [2]  A very valuable green manure crop, it can be sown in spring or as late as October. A deep rooted and fast growing plant, it is winter hardy, an effective weed suppresser, produces a good bulk and fixes a large amount of nitrogen;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Black
Flower Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [1]  High
Screening - Summer [1]  Porous
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
View Plants For A Future Record : Vicia sativa

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus hortorum (Small Garden Humble-bee)[7]
Bombus pascuorum (Common Carder-bee)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora viciae[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0