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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia americana var. americana   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia americana ssp. americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Vicia americana ssp. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Vicia americana var. americana

 

COMMON NAME:
American Vetch, Purple Vetch, Tare


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image of Vicia americana var. americana, American Vetch, Purple Vetch, Tare

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_viam_001_lvd

        

image of Vicia americana var. americana, American Vetch, Purple Vetch, Tare

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_viam_010_lvd

        

image of Vicia americana var. americana, American Vetch, Purple Vetch, Tare

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_vicia_americana1

June    Shannon County    SD

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Vicia americana var. americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vicia americana ssp. americana   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Vicia americana ssp. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Vicia americana var. americana

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3261

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry rocky or shaly woodlands, forest edges, riverside scours and prairies, per Weakley's Flora

Native north of the Carolinas

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LEAVES:
Even-pinnately compound: 8-16 leaflets
Mostly alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pink/ Pinkish-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted papilionaceous corolla
10 stamens, diadelphous, 9 and 1
Superior ovary

Racemes of 9 or fewer flowers

FRUIT:
Summer?
Legume

 

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