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Vicia sativa - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Pods - Click to enlarge!

Pods; Braga, Portugal; 4/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Twig with flower - Click to enlarge!

Twig with flower; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Leaflet close-up - Click to enlarge!

Leaflet close-up; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Stem section - Click to enlarge!

Stem section; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Vicia sativa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 4/2010 © Jingxin Liu

Vicia sativa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Braga, Portugal; 3/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 737
Date of entry: 05.03.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common Vetch

German: Saatwicke

Mandarin: 救荒野豌豆 (jiu huang ye wan dou)

Portuguese: Ervilhaca-comum

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fabales (244)

        Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)

          Genus: Vicia (8)

            Epithet: sativa L. (6)

Synonym: Vicia alba Moench

alba => white

sativa => sown, planted, cultivated, not wild

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet

External links

Check for Vicia sativa at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.

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