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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : vicsa

Scientific name: Vicia sativa L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: common vetch

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Saat-Wicke ; ES : veza ; FR : vesce cultivée ; IT : veccia dolce ; PT : ervilhaca-vulgar ; EN : common vetch ; NL : smalle en voederwikke, NL : grove krokke ; DK : foder-vikke

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons obscure (hypogeal germination).

- Leaves pinnately divided.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20-70 cm.

- Stem simple or branched, climbing and pubescent.

- Leaves with 3 to 7 pairs of leaflets a terminal branched tendril ; stipules with dark-coloured nectary, and stipules are usually dark-blotched beneath.

- Flowers purple or crimson more or less purplish, 2-3 cm, 2 rarely solitary on very short peduncles. Calyx with subequal teeth, drooping when ripe.

- Fruit : pod lengthened, nearly cylindric, 5-10 x 40-60 mm, short-haired, brown, spreading or erect; broad and compressed seeds.

- Very good quality as fodder plant; used as green manure.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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