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Vicia sepium (Bush Vetch; Zogu Kuki)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Vicia sepium or bush vetch is a plant species of the genus Vicia. A nitrogen-fixing, perennial, leguminous climbing plant that grows in hedgerows, grasslands, the edges of woodland, roadsides and rough ground. Occurs in western Europe, Russia including Siberia, Crimea, Caucasus and Central Asia. Also eastern Canada, north-eastern states of the USA and, where suitable habitat occurs, in Greenland. Found throughout England and eastern parts of Wales.
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Infraspecies

Vicia sepium eriocalyx
Vicia sepium sepium
Vicia sepium var. dunensis
Vicia sepium var. sepium (Attributes)
Vicia sepium var. vulgaris

Attributes

Flower Color [1]  Blue
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Structure [2]  Vine
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Autographa gamma (Silver Y Moth)[5]
Bombus lucorum (White-tailed bumblebee)[5]
Bombus pascuorum (Common Carder-bee)[5]
Eumerus funeralis[6]
Pieris rapae (imported cabbageworm)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Agromyza vicifoliae[5]
Peronospora viciae[6]
Septoria viciae[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 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)
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Ecology of Commanster
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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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